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Three leeches in the role of physicians attend a grasshopper in the role of the patient and propose diet and bloodletting. Coloured lithograph after J.J. Grandville, ca. 1832.

An pharmacist's apprentice mixing up a prescription. Coloured wood engraving by Stypułkowski after J.J. Grandville.

Animals dressed as gentlemen and ladies survey the medical advertisements on a wall. Coloured wood engraving by J. Grandville, 1853.

Birds dressed as surgeons or medical students dissect a body. Pen drawing attributed to J. Grandville, 1829.

Animals portraying a pharmacist with customers. Lithographic reproduction after J.I. Grandville, c. 1840.

A couple buy some narcotics from an apothecary whose assistant, Death, works with a pestle and mortar in the back room. Coloured lithograph by J. Grandville.

A pharmacist (Louis Phillippe) making up a prescription for a seated lady, surrounded by figures in apothecary jars; representing members of the French government and various political matters. Lithograph by J.I. Grandville, 1832.

A pharmacist in his shop. Coloured wood engraving by J.I. Grandville after J. Bara, c. 1840.

An exhausted mother gives birth before a crowd of French officials; symbolising the birth of the ideas of the July Revolution and their troubled patrimony in the hands of contemporary politicians. Lithograph by E. Forest after J. Grandville, 1831, after Eugène Devéria, 1827.

Four men whose distorted shadows are cast on the wall:a an apothecary casting the shadow of a clyster, a censor casting the shadow of a devil, a hereditary peer casting the shadow of a pig, and a Jesuit casting the shadow of a turkey. Coloured lithograph by J.J. Grandville, 1830.

Fables de La Fontaine illustrées / par J.J. Grandville [i.e. J.I.I. Gérard].

Death pays a visit to a baron. Lithograph by Langlumé after Jean Grandville.

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Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville

Images from the collections

Images by Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville

Works from the collections

A pharmacist in his shop. Coloured wood engraving by J.I. Grandville after J. Bara, c. 1840.

Fables de La Fontaine illustrées / par J.J. Grandville [i.e. J.I.I. Gérard].

A couple buy some narcotics from an apothecary whose assistant, Death, works with a pestle and mortar in the back room. Coloured lithograph by J. Grandville.

Death pays a visit to a baron. Lithograph by Langlumé after Jean Grandville.

A pharmacist (Louis Phillippe) making up a prescription for a seated lady, surrounded by figures in apothecary jars; representing members of the French government and various political matters. Lithograph by J.I. Grandville, 1832.

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Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville

Images from the collections

Images by Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville

Works from the collections

A pharmacist in his shop. Coloured wood engraving by J.I. Grandville after J. Bara, c. 1840.

Fables de La Fontaine illustrées / par J.J. Grandville [i.e. J.I.I. Gérard].

A couple buy some narcotics from an apothecary whose assistant, Death, works with a pestle and mortar in the back room. Coloured lithograph by J. Grandville.

Death pays a visit to a baron. Lithograph by Langlumé after Jean Grandville.

A pharmacist (Louis Phillippe) making up a prescription for a seated lady, surrounded by figures in apothecary jars; representing members of the French government and various political matters. Lithograph by J.I. Grandville, 1832.

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