M0018812: Interior of "Marshalls", a famous dentist's shop near Berwick Street, Soho, 1789

Date:
October 1961
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/167/27
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M0018812: Interior of "Marshalls", a famous dentist's shop near Berwick Street, Soho, 1789. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced October 2020: An interior of 'Marshalls', a famous dentist's shop near Ber

Description

Watercolour, 1789, of a section of the interior of a dentist's shop near Berwick Street, Soho, London. The dentist's shop is similar in appearance to an apothecary's shop of the time, containing many of the same elements: skull, pestle and mortar, apothecary jars, peculiar specimens, stuffed animals and skeletons of strange creatures. Related images: V0012054

Publication/Creation

October 1961

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the item depicted in the glass plate negative: 16585i

Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

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