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
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Publication/Creation

London : Burroughs Wellcome & Co., [between 1890 and 1899?]

Physical description

1 print : relief photoengraving on brass, mounted on mahogany ; mount 42 x 31 x 2 cm

Lettering

Depot for pharmaceutical products from Burroughs Wellcome and Co., London. R.d 120837

Reference

Wellcome Collection 2897053i

Creator/production credits

Burroughs Wellcome and Company was founded in London in 1880 by two Americans, Silas M. Burroughs and Henry S. Wellcome. A large sculpture of an American eagle was displayed in their main office at Snow Hill, Farringdon. Though many of their products were designed to eliminate the pharmacists' need to make up their own medicines, Henry S. Wellcome was well aware of the role of pestles and mortars as traditional symbols of the pharmacist's art

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