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Mercury, an agent of the Terror, carries Capucin Chabot naked towards a furnace; recording the turnover of human life during the Terror in the French Revolution. Coloured aquatint, ca. 1794.

A chemist's laboratory, with the apparatus numbered for a key. Engraving, 1748.

Venetian Albarello drug jar c 1590 : a study in pharmaceutical elegance.

A young male apothecary serving two young women in his shop. Coloured lithograph by C. Philipon, ca. 1830.

The Wellcome Research Institution, Euston Road, London: a reconstruction of an Arabic pharmacy from Damascus, 1959-1989. Photograph.

The Wellcome Research Institution, Euston Road, London: a reconstruction of an Italian pharmacy, 1935-1946. Photograph.

A design for a pharmacy label with snakes, an alligator, symbols and urns. Pen drawing.

A study in elegance : Deruta Albarello drug jar c 1505.

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

An apothecary making up a prescription using scales, his wife holds a recipe for him and two assistants are working with the bellows and pestle and mortar. Line engraving by F. Baretta after P. Mainoto.

A physician examining a urine specimen in which a faint figure of a baby is visible, a female patient is crying and being shouted at by her angry mother, indicating that she is pregnant. Watercolour by I.T., 1826.

Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: a display of pharmacy jars. Photograph.

The old pharmacy of the hôpital Saint-Denis, France: ornate shelving with decorative china pharmacy jars and glass bottles. Photograph, 1890/1910.

Rows of decorated pharmacy jars and other objects. Photograph.

M0007520: Three pharmacy jars

Leamington Spa, Warwickshire: pharmacy shop. Steel engraving.

Ceramiche italiane di farmacia / Giorgio Lise.

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Apothecary jars

Images from the collections

Images about Apothecary jars

Works from the collections

The old pharmacy of the hôpital Saint-Denis, France: ornate shelving with decorative china pharmacy jars and glass bottles. Photograph, 1890/1910.

Rows of decorated pharmacy jars and other objects. Photograph.

M0007520: Three pharmacy jars

Leamington Spa, Warwickshire: pharmacy shop. Steel engraving.

Ceramiche italiane di farmacia / Giorgio Lise.

Apothecary jars

Images from the collections

Images about Apothecary jars

Works from the collections

The old pharmacy of the hôpital Saint-Denis, France: ornate shelving with decorative china pharmacy jars and glass bottles. Photograph, 1890/1910.

Rows of decorated pharmacy jars and other objects. Photograph.

M0007520: Three pharmacy jars

Leamington Spa, Warwickshire: pharmacy shop. Steel engraving.

Ceramiche italiane di farmacia / Giorgio Lise.

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