M0018810: Trade card of Robert Siddall showing an alchemical laboratory, c.1740 / M0018811: Scene in an apothecary's shop, etching

Date:: October 1961

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/167/26

Part of:: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive

Archives and manuscripts

Collection contents

Wellcome Trust Corporate ArchiveWT
- Direct activitiesWT/D
  - Library and MuseumWT/D/1
    - Images from the photographic libraryWT/D/1/20
      - Photographic library: "M" seriesWT/D/1/20/1
        "M" series glass plate negatives: M0018784-M0018876WT/D/1/20/1/167
        M0018810: Trade card of Robert Siddall showing an alchemical laboratory, c.1740 / M0018811: Scene in an apothecary's shop, etchingWT/D/1/20/1/167/26

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced October 2020: Mrs Lavement arriving back home late after the theatre with

Description

Two images on one negative: the first is an etching by R. Clee, c.1750, after J. de Lajoue, c.1735, showing a chemist, surrounded by symbols and instruments of chemistry, advertising Richard Siddall, chemist in London. Related images: V0025575, L0004346. The other is an etching by T. Rowlandson after himself after T. Smollett showing Mrs Lavement arriving back home late after the theatre with Captain O'Donnel causing Mr Lavement (an apothecary) much anger and jealousy. Related images: V0010789

Publication/Creation

October 1961

Physical description

2 photographs on 1 plate glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the items depicted in the glass plate negative: 36994i and 16156i

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.

Terms of use

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