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Storefronts

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Images referencing Storefronts

26 images from works
  • Phrenological properties of drawing: colour, form, space, order. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1826.
  • Above Bar Street, Southampton, Hampshire. Coloured engraving by P. Brannon, 1846.
  • A new apothecary's shop open for business, with parody advertisements for different potions; representing the remedies required for different professions and social types. Coloured etching after G.M. Woodward, 1802.
  • A young man outside a pharmacy and unfortunately bumping into his creditor. Aquatint by D.T. Egerton after himself.
  • Two women observing a sign for buying teeth, one of them remarks that she had recently had one extracted and the clinic had held on to it. Reproduction of a drawing after G. Belcher, 1914.
  • A shopkeeper sews up his wife's mouth to stop her from nagging. Coloured etching by T.L. Busby, ca. 1826.
  • A new apothecary's shop open for business, with parody advertisements for different potions; representing the remedies required for different professions and social types. Coloured etching after G.M. Woodward, 1802.
  • People standing outside an apothecary shop in Rotterdam. Lithograph by J.C. d'Armand Gerkens after L.A. Vintcent.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: exterior of a reconstruction of a seventeenth-century English apothecary's shop. Photograph.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: exterior of a reconstruction of J. Bell's pharmacy in the ground floor galleries. Photograph, c. 1928.
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Works from the collections

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    Brady Webster grocery shop, High Street, Clayton West, Yorkshire: exterior. Photograph, 19--.

    | Date: [between 1900 and 1999?] | Reference: 2141830i
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    People standing outside an apothecary shop in Rotterdam. Lithograph by J.C. d'Armand Gerkens after L.A. Vintcent.

    Vintcent, Lodewyk Antony, 1812-1842. | Reference: 15960i
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    A boy on horseback giving a prescription to a doctor at night. Coloured lithograph.

    | Reference: 10955i
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    Phrenological properties of drawing: colour, form, space, order. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1826.

    George Cruikshank | Date: August 1st 1826 | Reference: 11845i
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    A new apothecary's shop open for business, with parody advertisements for different potions; representing the remedies required for different professions and social types. Coloured etching after G.M. Woodward, 1802.

    George Murgatroyd Woodward | Date: 1 December 1802 | Reference: 10932i
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Related topics

Stores, Retail
Pharmacies
Costume
Display of merchandise
Pharmacists
Characters and characteristics
London
Museums
Windows
Medical museums

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