M0006854: Six scenes of laboratory and shop work relating to pharmacies

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Six scenes of laboratory and shop work reLating to pharmacy.

Photograph of pen drawings by Jan Steen, depicting six scenes of laboratory and shop work relating to pharmacies, possibly as a frontispiece proof for Pharmacie anglaise de Charles Delacre catalogue 1889. This reproduction was made during the VI International Congress for the History of Medicine held in Leiden 1927 at the Exposition d'art Medico-Historique and is described as Tableaux [Painting] 34, Le mal d'amour, in the exhibition catalogue. The original painting is held by the Mauritshuis, The Hague (HdG 131). Related images: V0010744

1 May 1940

1 photograph sheet film negative; 17.5 x 12.5 cm

A copy of the exhibition catalogue has been digitised by the National library of the Netherlands Catalogue d'une collection d'art medico-historique.

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.

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