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  • A baker and his wife weighing their baby, representing an advertisement for "Boulangère" chicory. Chromolithograph by L. Olivié, ca. 1890.
  • A woman holding a sword and the scales of justice; representing jurisprudence. Engraving by E. Delaune, ca. 1560.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: reconstruction of a seventeenth-century Italian pharmacy. Photograph.
  • A despondent winged woman holding a geometrical instrument surrounded by attributes associated with knowledge; representing melancholia. Heliogravure attributed to C. Amand-Durand, 18--, after A. Dürer, 1514.
  • Various gold trinkets, pieces of gold jewelry, gold amulets, stools, gold nuggets and scales for measuring gold. Engraving.
  • A sour faced apothecary putting together a prescription. Coloured engraving.
  • A pharmacist making up a prescription in his shop. Coloured woodcut.
  • An unattractive pharmacist in his shop. Coloured wood engraving, c. 1850.
  • An unattractive pharmacist in his shop. Coloured wood engraving, c. 1850.
  • A pharmacist in his shop. Coloured wood engraving by J.I. Grandville after J. Bara, c. 1840.
  • A woman with a sword and a balance; representing justice. Etching, 16--.
  • Mrs Lavement arriving back home late after the theatre with Captain O'Donnel causing Mr Lavement (an apothecary) much anger and jealousy, Roderick Random apprentice to Mr Lavement watches the scene with amusement. Etching by T. Rowlandson after himself after T. Smollett.
  • A female figure holding a pair of scales, resting her foot on a footstool; representing justice. Etching, c. 1736.
  • Interior of the decorative and elaborate court pharmacy of Rastatt. Coloured line engraving.
  • Apparatus for an apothecary. Wood engraving, 1861.
  • A wealthy man is stabbed by a skeleton while a man weighs coins on the other side of the table; representing the vanity of riches. Engraving by M. Pregel, 1616.