"An apothecary's shop, the walls covered by jars closely ranged on shelves, a stuffed fish hanging from the ceiling. Behind a curtain (right) Death, wearing an apron, pounds at a mortar of 'slow Poison', looking gleefully in a mirror to watch the customers. The fat quack compounds medicines at the counter. A grotesque crowd of agonized patients enters through a doorway (left) inscribed 'Apothecaries Hall'. Two sit in arm-chairs. The jars are 'Canthar[ides]', 'Arsnic', 'Opium', 'Nitre', 'Vitriol', 'Elixir', with (right) 'Restorativ Drops'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
I have a secret art to cure each malady, which men endure
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue, taken from the heading to the printed page opposite the plate in The English dance of death., Couplet etched below image: I have a secret art to cure / each malady, which men endure., Attributed to Rowlandson in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint from top margin and verses from bottom margin. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Plate from: Combe, W. The English dance of death. London : Published at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts ..., 1815-1816, v. 1, opposite page 85., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Skeleton as death -- Pharmacy, interior -- Apothecaries.
Publisher:
Pub. July 1- 1814, at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
Combe, William, 1742-1823.
Subject (Topic):
Death (Personification), Quacks and quackery, Skeletons, Interiors, Drugstores, Pharmacists, Mortars & pestles, Sick persons, Medicines, Shelving, Containers, and Mirrors
Title supplied by curator., After the painting, "The Apothecary" of ca. 1661, held in the Louvre., Date derived from date of original painting., Place of publication derived from artist's country of residence., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., Illegible pencil notation on verso., and Stamp of Alfred Misch on verso.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Physicians, Mortars & pestles, Globes, Bottles, Pharmacists, and Writing materials
Title supplied by curator., Place of publication derived from artist's nationality., Date derived from inscription., In margin lower right in ink: A Monsieur Julien avec toute ma sympathie, Delestre, 7.mai.1983., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified and 1983
Subject (Geographic):
France.
Subject (Topic):
Physicians, Medicine, Specialties and specialists, Caricatures and cartoons, Pharmacists, and Dentists
Title from item., Date derived from printmaker's dates of activity., Place of publication derived from printmaker's country of residence., In lower margin: Almeriae apud Ioannem van Beyeren, Bibliopolam., Possibly frontispiece from: Jan van Beyeren, Pharmacopoea almeriana galeno-chymicas, published Alkmaar, 1723., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Pharmacies, interior; Scientific apparatus.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Almería (Spain).
Subject (Topic):
Pharmacists, Scientific equipment, Mortars & pestles, and Drugstores
Titles supplied by curator., Date and place of publication derived from printing process, patented in 1852, and heavily used in the 19th century., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Nuns as nurses, Pharmacists, Drugstores, Drugs, Girls, Children, Baskets, Nuns, and Medicines
Plate lettered in the top center 'F': Reverse copies of the upper bodies of six figures in the sixth plate of William Hogarth's Marriage a la Mode. Each of the figures is numbered; 1. The dying countess; 2. Her child, kissing her; 3. The old woman; 4. The merchant; 5. The foolish servant; 6. The apothecary; also a sketch at left of a head from one of the paintings
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue., Illustrations to: Lichtenberg's Göttinger Taschen Kalender., and Numbered '6' in upper left corner above border.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
Subject (Topic):
Adultery, Children, Death, Merchants, Mothers, Pharmacists, and Servants
An apothecary kneels at the feet of a pretty young woman, one hand on his breast, the other pointing to a cloth at his feet on which are spread a clyster-pipe, shears, pestle and mortar, a bottle, and a canister of "Love Pow[der?]". Behind them is a piano; in the background on the right is a slightly open door, around which an amused woman and man view the scene
Description:
Title devised by curator., Signed and dated by the artist in lower left., "VWN" within oval in lower right corner, probably a collector's stamp or mark, For a print after Rowlandson of similar design, see no. 11114 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 8., This record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Apothecaries.
Subject (Topic):
Pharmacists, Courtship, Medical equipment & supplies, Mortars & pestles, Pianos, and Doors & doorways
Title supplied by curator., Plate 48 from: Joseph von Baumeister, Die Welt in Bildern, Vienna: Johann Baptist Wallishausser, 1794., Above image: No. 48., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Pharmacy, interior., and Insert of accompanying text.
Publisher:
Verlag ben Johann Baptist Wallishausser, F. F. priv. Buchhändler
Subject (Topic):
Pharmacists, Drugstores, Medicines, Mortars & pestles, and Fish
Title supplied by curator., Date from item., Place of publication from British Museum information about publisher., Sheet trimmed., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Pharmacies, interior.
Publisher:
Pubd. by W.J. White
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Pharmacists, Patent medicines, Death, Drugstores, Skeletons, Blind persons, Crutches, Sick persons, Scales, Children, Dogs, and Rats
Title from item., Place of publication and date supplied by curator., Title is followed by seven more lines of verse., Below image right: 66., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Compounding of Drugs.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Pharmacists, Pharmaceutical industry, Valentines, Medicines, and Mortars & pestles