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  • Still life with a ledger, a skull and other objects. Oil painting, 1766.
  • Still life with a ledger, a skull and other objects. Oil painting, 1766.
  • Libby's milk with peaches / H.J. Ltd.
  • Libby's milk with peaches / H.J. Ltd.
  • Interior of a pharmaceutical laboratory with people at work; the shop is visible through a doorway. Engraving, 1747.
  • A physician in his study writing a prescription for his waiting patient. Oil painting by Pieter Jakob Horemans, 1745.
  • A physician in his study writing a prescription for his waiting patient. Oil painting by Pieter Jakob Horemans, 1745.
  • A physician in his study writing a prescription for his waiting patient. Oil painting by Pieter Jakob Horemans, 1745.
  • A physician in his study writing a prescription for his waiting patient. Oil painting by Pieter Jakob Horemans, 1745.
  • A public square in a French port, in which a medicine vendor cries up his wares to an audience of traders and strollers. Coloured aquatint by J. Léveillé, 1785, after A. Borel.
  • Christ holds up a glass heart filled with animals (sins) and cures a sick woman with the fluid from the wound in his side. Engraving by H. Goltzius, 1578.
  • The powers of Europe as alchemists who dissolve the alliance of German princes with Napoleon. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1813.
  • An alchemist using bellows at a furnace in his laboratory. Etching by T. Major, 1750, after D. Teniers the younger.
  • An alchemist using bellows at a furnace in his laboratory. Etching by T. Major, 1750, after D. Teniers the younger.
  • An alchemist in his laboratory. Oil painting attributed to a Bavarian painter, 18/19th century, after David Teniers the younger.
  • Entertainment ephemera. Box 1.
  • Ange-Bernard Imbert-Delonnes. Drawing by P. Chasselat, 1799-1800.
  • Ange-Bernard Imbert-Delonnes. Drawing by P. Chasselat, 1799-1800.
  • Ange-Bernard Imbert-Delonnes. Drawing by P. Chasselat, 1799-1800.
  • Ange-Bernard Imbert-Delonnes. Drawing by P. Chasselat, 1799-1800.
  • An alchemist's laboratory: a young man drinks an elixir of life while the alchemist is incapacitated. Wood engraving by H.K. Browne (Phiz), 1865.