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  • An alchemist with angel's wings and a skull cap, pouring fluid from a ladle into a crucible. Pencil drawing by J. Tenniel, 1898.
  • A sour faced apothecary putting together a prescription. Coloured engraving.
  • A sour faced apothecary putting together a prescription. Coloured engraving.
  • A young woman being visited by a member of the clergy while another woman cries beside her. Line engraving, 1813.
  • A man composed of pharmaceutical equipment wandering the countryside; representing an apothecary as if he were an itinerant. Coloured lithograph.
  • A man composed of pharmaceutical equipment wandering the countryside; representing an apothecary as if he were an itinerant. Coloured lithograph.
  • A man composed of pharmaceutical equipment wandering the countryside; representing an apothecary as if he were an itinerant. Coloured lithograph.
  • A design for a pharmacy label containing paraphernalia associated with that discipline. Engraving.
  • An apothecary is making up a prescription for waiting customers, another takes a jar down from a shelf. Engraving by J.C. Weigel.
  • 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.
  • A design for a pharmacy label with snakes, an alligator, symbols and urns. Pen drawing.
  • The Dutch maid (De Nederlandse Maagd), personifying the Netherlands asks an apothecary whether a medicine might not be poisonous; symbolising doubts over a new Dutch tax law; he replies no, a babe-in-arms could take it. Process print after J. Braakensiek, 1890.
  • An apothecary making up a prescription in his working room. Chromolithograph, 1901(?).
  • An itinerant doctor, by a subterfuge, cures an undergraduate hoaxer of his supposed maladies of lying and bad memory. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1807, after G.M. Woodward.
  • An apothecary mixing a concoction in his working room surrounded by the paraphernalia of his profession. Wood engraving by A. Bellenger after H.S. Marks.
  • An itinerant doctor, by a subterfuge, cures an undergraduate hoaxer of his supposed maladies of lying and bad memory. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1807, after G.M. Woodward.
  • A man composed of pharmaceutical equipment, surrounded by medicinal plants. Engraving by N. de Larmessin, 1695.
  • A small boy at an apothecary's shop. Reproduction of a lithograph by A. Holswilder, c. 1890.
  • An alchemist of the 'puffer' (uninitiated) type, surrounded by equipment. Engraving by W. French after D. Teniers the younger.
  • A tooth-drawer is extracting a tooth from a tense seated patient, the room is scattered with objects pertaining to academia. Line engraving by A. Kesler after F. Giani after G. Dou.
  • Apparatus for an apothecary. Wood engraving, 1861.
  • An alchemist of the 'puffer' (uninitiated) type, surrounded by equipment. Engraving by W. French after D. Teniers the younger.
  • An alchemist holding tongs at his furnace. Etching by J. Wagner after D. Maggiotto.
  • An alchemist holding tongs at his furnace. Etching by J. Wagner after D. Maggiotto.
  • An apothecary in his laboratory concocting a mixture. Wood engraving by F.Mc F (?) after, 1876, after H.S. Marks.
  • Animals portraying a pharmacist with customers. Lithographic reproduction after J.I. Grandville, c. 1840.
  • An apothecary in his laboratory concocting a mixture. Wood engraving by F.Mc F (?) after, 1876, after H.S. Marks.
  • Christ as apothecary; suggesting the idea of Christ as the universal healer. Reproduction of a photograph of an oil painting after J. Marie Appeli, 1731.
  • Two drunken soldiers ask an apothecary for some 'eau de vie' - some brandy. Coloured lithograph by J. Rigo.
  • Interior of the decorative and elaborate court pharmacy of Rastatt. Coloured line engraving.