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  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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 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.
  • A young male apothecary serving two young women in his shop. Coloured lithograph by C. Philipon, ca. 1830.
  • An apothecary making up a prescription using scales, his wife holds a recipe for him and two assistants are working with the bellows and pestle and mortar. Line engraving by F. Baretta after P. Mainoto.
  • An apothecary making up a prescription using scales, his wife holds a recipe for him and two assistants are working with the bellows and pestle and mortar. Line engraving by F. Baretta after P. Mainoto.
  • A young male apothecary serving two young women in his shop. Coloured lithograph by C. Philipon, ca. 1830.
  • A man being weighed on a set of scales, and a man with his head in a glass container; showing Lavoisier's experiments with respiration. Drawing attributed to M.A.P. Lavoisier, ca. 1790.
  • A man being weighed on a set of scales, and a man with his head in a glass container; showing Lavoisier's experiments with respiration. Drawing attributed to M.A.P. Lavoisier, ca. 1790.
  • A busy examining hall in the opium factory at Patna, India. Lithograph after W. S. Sherwill, c. 1850.
  • The archangel Michael, holding a flaming sword and the scales of justice; in heaven the angels kneel before Christ; representing the Day of Judgement. Woodcut.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: reconstruction of a Hispano-Moresque pharmacy. Photograph.
  • The interior of a shop of a family of apothecaries - d' Ailly. Photoprint by V.A Bruckmann, 1904, after an oil painting by J. Jelgerhuis Rienksz, 1818.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: interior of a reconstruction of a seventeenth-century English apothecary's shop. Photograph.
  • A busy drinking scene outside a tavern with the landlord taking a drink order from a new customer. Engraving by C. Du Bosc after J. Laguerre.
  • Egyptian wall relief, taken 1989
  • Egyptian wall relief, taken 1989
  • English courtesans being sold at auction to British and Asian men in a port controlled by the East India Company. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, ca. 1815, after J. Gillray.