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Gewichte- und Waagemacher im alten Köln (16.-19. Jahrhundert) / [Bruno Kisch].
Kisch, Bruno, 1890-1966.Date: 1960- Pictures
An apothecary composed of the attributes of the trade. Line engraving.
Reference: 16159i- Pictures
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.
Lavoisier, Marie-Anne-Pierrette, 1758-1836.Date: [1790?]Reference: 37207i- Pictures
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Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: reconstruction of a seventeenth-century Italian pharmacy. Photograph.
Date: 1927Reference: 28908i- Pictures
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.
Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528.Date: 1800-1899Reference: 20093i- Pictures
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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.
Date: 1616Reference: 26748i- Pictures
Page 6: court of Yama, judgement and punishment. Watercolour drawing.
Reference: 26976i- Pictures
A pharmacist (Louis Phillippe) making up a prescription for a seated lady, surrounded by figures in apothecary jars; representing members of the French government and various political matters. Lithograph by J.I. Grandville, 1832.
Grandville, J. J., 1803-1847.Date: [1832]Reference: 16136i- 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- Pictures
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.
Smollett, T. (Tobias), 1721-1771.Reference: 16156i- Pictures
An interior of sixteenth century monastic pharmacy. Watercolour, 19--.
Reference: 16009i- Pictures
A young male apothecary serving two young women in his shop. Coloured lithograph by C. Philipon, ca. 1830.
Date: 1830Reference: 16084i- Pictures
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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.
Reference: 25068i- Pictures
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A busy examining hall in the opium factory at Patna, India. Lithograph after W. S. Sherwill, c. 1850.
Sherwill, W. S. (Walter Stanhope)Date: [1851]Reference: 25039i- Pictures
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Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: reconstruction of a Hispano-Moresque pharmacy. Photograph.
Reference: 28912i- Pictures
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Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: interior of a reconstruction of a seventeenth-century English apothecary's shop. Photograph.
Date: 1927Reference: 28915i- Pictures
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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.
Jelgerhuis, J. (Johannes), 1770-1836.Date: 1818-1904Reference: 15961i- Pictures
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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.
Laguerre, John, approximately 1702-1748.Reference: 26885i- Pictures
Jansenism is weighed in a balance against Roman Catholicism. Etching attributed to Carel Allard, 1705.
Date: [1705]Reference: 2141442iPart of: Lust-hof van Momus.- Books
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Clough's farewell, 1708. An almanack for the year of our Lord, (according to the common account) 1708. ... Design'd for the publick, by Samuel Clough, before his death, which was October 26, 1707. [One line from Ecclesiastes] To which is prefixt a short elegy on the author Licensed by authority.
Clough, Samuel, 1665?-1707.Date: 1708 [i.e., 1707?]- Books
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An essay on weighing of gold, &c. wherein is shewn an effectual method for discovering and detecting of counterfeit pieces of money, (be they ever so artfully disguised) Which will be of great Use to prevent Persons being imposed upon by any of those ... and adulterated Pieces of Gold Coin, which are too common at this Time. This is performed by a Pair of common Scales and a Set of Gold Weights, with the Hydrostatical Instrument herein described, which may be had at a very small Expence. By this Method not only Gold Coins, &c. but also all ... of Gold and Silver Plate may be weigh'd, and their ... Value ascertained to the greatest Nicety. By William Symons, Author of The Practical Gauger.
Symons, William.Date: MDCC.LVI. [1756]- Books
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An essay on gold coin. In which certain methods are laid down to ascertain the quantity and quality of any current piece of gold coin, and by which every species of counterfeit or adulterated coin may be immediately detected. With a description of several new invented instruments of various constructions, to weigh gold either in air with respect to weight, or in water with respect to quality or purry; and which are calculated to answer every purpose required, with respect to accuracy, portability, simplicity, perspicuity, and cheapness; and by which any person may be enabled to judge of the inefficacy of the common scales, and instruments generally used; and informed how to know when an instrument performs well, and is really accurate. Likewise in the course of the work are observations on currency in general, and the present state of our gold coin in particular; with arguments to prove the necessity of a new coinage. By Thomas Hatton, author of a treatise upon clock and watch work.
Hatton, Thomas, active 1757-1774.Date: MDCCLXXIII. [1773]- Digital Images
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Egyptian wall relief, taken 1989
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Egyptian wall relief, taken 1989
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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.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: [between 1810 and 1819?]Reference: 571247i