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  • A sour faced apothecary putting together a prescription. Coloured engraving.
  • A pharmacist making up a prescription in his shop. Coloured woodcut.
  • Four distinctive and elaborately adorned women presenting a queen with many riches; representing Europe, Asia, Africa and America bearing the natural bounty of the world to an allegorical figure. Line engraving.
  • Interior of a pharmacy, the pharmacist and his apprentice at work. Engraving.
  • A study in elegance : Deruta Albarello drug jar c 1505.
  • An interior of an affluent apothecary's shop - a wounded young man is being examined. Coloured aquatint attributed to M. Egerton, 1824.
  • A man with toothache sits in his nightgown, with a handkerchief around his face, in a surgery [?], and is discovered by "Botsam" in fright to be turning into a devil. Wood engraving by F. Wentworth after H.K. Browne.
  • A study in elegance : Deruta Albarello drug jar c 1505.
  • A physician with a garland of bottles, pill boxes and a clyster-pipe. Coloured etching after T. Rowlandson.
  • 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 design for a pharmacy label with scientific equipment and an ornate border. Etching.
  • Michel Schuppach in his pharmacy examining a young woman's urine who is seated opposite him awaiting the result. Line engraving by B. Hübner, 1775, after G. Locher, 1774.
  • The Wellcome Research Institution, Euston Road, London: a reconstruction of a Pompeian pharmacy, 1935-1946. Photograph.
  • An interior of 'Marshalls', a famous dentist's shop near Berwick Street, Soho. Watercolour, 1789.
  • Nursing and charitable acts of the "Soeurs de la Charité" or Sisters of Love; with the alphabet: A-K, T-Z, ab-h. Coloured line engraving.
  • Interior of the decorative and elaborate court pharmacy of Rastatt. Coloured line engraving.
  • Design for a general chemical laboratory, with the apparatus numbered. Etching by A.W. Warren, 1822, after C. Varley.
  • Apparatus for an apothecary. Wood engraving, 1861.
  • Venetian Albarello drug jar c 1590 : a study in pharmaceutical elegance.
  • A study in pharmaceutical elegance : Italian drug pot, XVIth Century.
  • A medical pracitioner examining a flask of urine brought by one of his patients. Process print after P. van der Wielen, 1928, after A. Pisano after Giotto.
  • A nun with two children in a convent pharmacy, surrounded attributes of the trade. Lithograph by André after E. Pingret.
  • Death as an apothecary's assistant making up medicines with a mortar and pestle for the apothecary attending a female patient who sits by the fireside. Watercolour by T. Rowlandson or one of his followers.
  • A pharmacist and his apprentice - the apprentice points out that a customer can't be taking his medicine because he is getting better quickly. Coloured lithograph, c. 1840.
  • An apothecary, John Simmonds, and his boy apprentice, William, working in the laboratory of John Bell's pharmacy. Engraving by J.G. Murray, 1842, after W.H. Hunt.