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A pharmacist in his shop. Coloured wood engraving by J.I. Grandville after J. Bara, c. 1840.

Date

[1840?]

Reference

15898i

Fables de La Fontaine illustrées / par J.J. Grandville [i.e. J.I.I. Gérard].

Date

1840

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.

Reference

16624i

Part of

Voyage pour l'eternité

Death pays a visit to a baron. Lithograph by Langlumé after Jean Grandville.

Reference

36606i

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.

Date

[1832]

Reference

16136i

Four men whose distorted shadows are cast on the wall:a an apothecary casting the shadow of a clyster, a censor casting the shadow of a devil, a hereditary peer casting the shadow of a pig, and a Jesuit casting the shadow of a turkey. Coloured lithograph by J.J. Grandville, 1830.

Date

[1830]

Reference

32782i

Three leeches in the role of physicians attend a grasshopper in the role of the patient and propose diet and bloodletting. Coloured lithograph after J.J. Grandville, ca. 1832.

Date

1830-1839

Reference

16367i

Part of

Métamorphoses du jour

An exhausted mother gives birth before a crowd of French officials; symbolising the birth of the ideas of the July Revolution and their troubled patrimony in the hands of contemporary politicians. Lithograph by E. Forest after J. Grandville, 1831, after Eugène Devéria, 1827.

Date

[1831]

Reference

16375i

Animals portraying a pharmacist with customers. Lithographic reproduction after J.I. Grandville, c. 1840.

Date

[c. 1840]

Reference

16141i

Animals dressed as gentlemen and ladies survey the medical advertisements on a wall. Coloured wood engraving by J. Grandville, 1853.

Date

1853

Reference

16661i