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A scholar/apothecary mixing a concoction with a pestle and mortar and writing down the remedy; an emblem from a drug jar. Watercolour.
Reference: 16216i- Pictures
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Old Parr, an elderly apothecary with an extremely long beard mixing a concoction with a pestle and mortar. Pen drawing by Matthews(?), 1861(?).
Matthews, active 1861.Date: 1861Reference: 15932i- Pictures
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Sudan: a man grinding with a large pestle and mortar. Photograph, ca. 1920.
Date: 1920Reference: 580777i- Pictures
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Sudan: a man grinding with a large pestle and mortar. Photograph, ca. 1920.
Date: 1920Reference: 580771i- Pictures
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A physician reading a recipe instructs his assistant who is mixing with a pestle and mortar. Engraving after a twelfth century manuscript.
Reference: 21555i- Pictures
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An apothecary's apprentice in a shop mixing up a prescription in a pestle and mortar for a customer. Watercolour attributed to C. Stanfield.
Stanfield, Clarkson, 1793-1867.Reference: 15915i- Pictures
A mortar and pestle; the American eagle; and the joined flags of the United Kingdom and the United States; advertising Burroughs Wellcome & Co., London. Relief photoengraving on metal.
Date: [between 1890 and 1899?]Reference: 2897053i- Pictures
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A couple and their child consulting a pharmacist in his shop, an apprentice is mixing up a concoction with a large pestle and mortar. Soft-ground etching.
Reference: 15899i- Pictures
An interior of a stylish pharmacy with the pharmacist serving a customer and an apprentice at work with the pestle and mortar. Coloured etching by H. Heath, 1825.
Date: 14 October 1825Reference: 16392i- Pictures
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A man pounding tea leaves with a large pestle and mortar. Painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
Date: 1850Reference: 572186iPart of: Tea (Camellia sinensis) cultivation and production.- Pictures
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A man and a woman pounding and mixing grains or spices with a foot-operated mortar and pestle. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]Reference: 582282iPart of: Various Indian trades and professions- Pictures
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An apothecary (a man using pestle and mortar). Oil painting by a Spanish painter, 18th century.
Reference: 44594i- Digital Images
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Statue of Saint Damian and Saint Cosmas, represented with a bottle of urine and with a pestle and mortar.
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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.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.Reference: 20131i- Books
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Love at first sight. A comedy, acted at the New Theatre in Little Lincoln's-Inn-Fields. By Her Majesties servants. Written by David Craufurd, gent.
Craufurd, David, 1665-1726.Date: [1704]- Pictures
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A surgeon treating an elderly man's foot, in the background an assistant is mixing a concoction with a pestle and mortar. Lithograph after D. Teniers, the younger.
Teniers, David, 1610-1690.Date: [between 1800 and 1899]Reference: 22590i- Archives and manuscripts
M0009195: Two pestle and mortars
Date: 17 August 1945- Pictures
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Pills, medication, drugs, a pestle and mortar and a syringe representing a warning about the dangers of intravenous drug abuse and AIDS. Colour lithograph by Adprint, ca. 1997.
Date: [1997?]Reference: 677344i- Pictures
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Scientific instruments and attributes of philosophy: gyroscopes, telescope, pestle and mortar, cosmological manuals, natural history specimens etc.. Lithograph by J-B-J. Jorand, 1835.
Jorand, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph, 1788-1850.Date: 1835Reference: 25985i- Pictures
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Pills, medication, drugs, a pestle and mortar and a syringe representing a warning about the dangers of intravenous drug abuse and AIDS sponsored by Unicef. Colour lithograph by Adprint, ca. 1997.
Date: [1997?]Reference: 677346i- Pictures
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A couple buy some narcotics from an apothecary whose assistant, Death, works with a pestle and mortar in the back room. Coloured lithograph by J. Grandville.
Grandville, J. J., 1803-1847.Reference: 16624iPart of: Voyage pour l'eternité- Pictures
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.
Mainoto, Pietro.Reference: 16371i- Books
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A description of a pulverizing mill, lately invented for the use of apothecaries, to supply the place of the pestle and mortar / [Stephen Hemsted].
Hemsted, StephenDate: 1777- Pictures
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A Flemish surgeon treating an elderly man's foot, an assistant is mixing a concoction with a pestle and mortar in a surgery. Engraving by J. Daullé after D. Teniers, the younger.
Teniers, David, 1610-1690.Date: [1760]Reference: 22581i- Pictures
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A rural surgeon treating an elderly man's foot, in the background an assistant is mixing a concoction with a pestle and mortar amidst a busy workshop. Etching by W. Unger after D. Teniers, the younger.
Teniers, David, 1610-1690.Reference: 22595i