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
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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Mounted, includes lettering.
Location Status Access Closed stores16392i.1Cut to platemark.
Location Status Access Closed stores16392i.2