An interior of a stylish pharmacy with the pharmacist serving a customer and an apprentice at work with the pestle and mortar. Coloured etching by H. Heath, 1825.

Date:
14 October 1825
Reference:
16392i
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Description

In the window, large drug jars. Other jars and drawers containing materia medica line the wall behind the unkempt counter. The small apprentice uses a comparatively large mortar and pestle. Among the drug labels are jalap, rhubarb, treacle, honey and camomile

Publication/Creation

[London] (10 Newgate St.) : W. Cole, 14 October 1825.

Physical description

1 print : etching, with watercolour ; platemark 33 x 24 cm

Contributors

Related material

Select images of this work were taken by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: WT/D/1/20/1/168/24

Lettering

Physic. ; H.H.

References note

W.H. Helfand, Drugs and pharmacy in prints, Toronto 1967, p. 12, no. 17

Reference

Wellcome Collection 16392i

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Where to find it

  • Mounted, includes lettering.

    LocationStatusAccess
    Closed stores
    16392i.1

  • Cut to platemark.

    LocationStatusAccess
    Closed stores
    16392i.2

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