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A busy stacking room in the opium factory at Patna, India. Lithograph after W. S. Sherwill, c. 1850.
- Sherwill, W. S. (Walter Stanhope)
- Date:
- [1851]
- Reference:
- 25037i
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Credit: A busy stacking room in the opium factory at Patna, India. Lithograph after W. S. Sherwill, c. 1850. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark
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Publication/Creation
London : Maclure, Macdonald & Macgregor lith., [1851]
Physical description
1 print : lithograph ; image 20.2 x 27.6 cm
Contributors
Lettering
The stacking room, opium factory at Patna, India drawn by W. S. Sherwill
Reference
Wellcome Library no. 25037i
References note
Travel in aquatint and lithography 1770-1860 from the library of J.R. Abbey, San Francisco 1991, vol. 2, p. 443, no. 478
Notes
One of a series of seven prints of opium production at Patna
Exhibitions note
Exhibited in “Ayurvedic Man: Encounters with Indian medicine” at Wellcome Collection, 16 November 2017 – 8 April 2018
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Languages
- English
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Location Status Access Closed stores