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An apothecary's shop: interior. Watercolour by Lucy Pierce.

Pierce, Lucy Elizabeth, active 1910-1950.

Date: [between 1900 and 1999]

A child misunderstanding a chemist. Wood engraving after T. Wilkinson.

Wilkinson, Tom.

An old lady in a chemists misunderstanding the use of a thermometer. Wood engraving after C. Keene.

Keene, Charles, 1823-1891.

A new apothecary's shop open for business, with parody advertisements for different potions; representing the remedies required for different professions and social types. Coloured etching after G.M. Woodward, 1802.

Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809.

Date: 1 December 1802

A child serving behind the counter of a chemists and offering advice to a female customer. Wood engraving.

An unscrupulous chemist selling a child arsenic and laudanum. Wood engraving after J. Leech.

Leech, John, 1817-1864.

Men digging minerals; a phoenix being reborn; a pelican feeding its chicks with its blood; symbols of the four elements; an apothecary's shop. Engraving by J. Drapentier, 1677.

Tachenius, Otto, -approximately 1670.

Date: 1677

A seventeenth-century German apothecary's shop with ornate pharmacy jars, large metal mortars and a stuffed turtle hanging from the ceiling; recreated for the German National Museum in Nürnberg. Photograph by Christof Müller.

Müller, Christof (Photographer)

Date: [between 1900 and 1999]

The interior of a seventeenth-century apothecary's shop recreated for the German National Museum in Nürnberg. Photograph.

Müller, Christof (Photographer)

Date: [between 1900 and 1999]

Three affluent doctors congratulating themselves on their profession. Coloured mezzotint, 1793, after R. Dighton.

Richard Dighton

A statue of Aesculapius holding his staff and a plant stands in a large pharmacy below the coat of arms of Leiden; men working in the pharmacy in the background; representing the pharmacopoeia of Leiden. Engraving by F. van Bleyswyck, 1751.

Bleyswyck, François van.

Date: 1751

Delhi: an anatomical model advertising a pharmacy. Colour photograph by Ben Dray, 1993.

Dray, Ben, 1967-

Date: 1993

A pharmaceutical business (John Bell & Co.): rooms for manufacture, dispensing, and shop. Etching by R.W. Macbeth.

Macbeth, Robert W. 1848-1910.

Date: [between 1890 and 1899?]

Villiers Street, Strand: the north-east part, including the shop of William Challice, chemist and druggist; Alsopp's dining and oyster rooms; and a cigar shop. Photograph, 189-.

Date: [between 1890 and 1899?]

Definition of a condom against a textured background: "The only protection against AIDS" with instructions on how to buy them in French: 'In a pharmacy, just say: "Bonjour, une boîte de préservatifs, s'il vous plaît"'; an advertisement by Mairie de Paris. Colour lithograph.

Date: [between 1990 and 1999]

A woman falling headfirst through an open cellar-door outside a pharmacy, and a man expressing his concern. Coloured etching by I. Cruikshank after G.M. Woodward, 1798.

Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809.

Date: April 28 1798

A medical practitioner taking a lady's pulse in a pharmacy. Oil painting by Emili Casals i Camps, ca. 1882.

Casals i Camps, Emili, 1843-1928.

Date: [1882?]

A pharmacy: the pharmacist (a fox) tries to sell medicines to a customer in pain (a duck, accompanied by his wife). Drawing by J.H. Choustrac, 1905.

Choustrac, Jean-Henri, 1871-

Date: 1905

Two Chinese men stand by a shop window while opium smokers sit on the terrace above. Pencil drawing with sepia wash by W. J. Bellairs, 19th century.

Bellairs, W. J.

An Irish man is having a prescription made up in a pharmacy shop, he complains to the pharmacist about the small quantity of medicine he is being given. Wood engraving by C. Keane, 1874.

Keene, Charles, 1823-1891.

Date: 1874

A green neon-lit pharmacy shop sign on the corner of a street with a message in French: 'There are places for protection on every street corner'; with a sterile needle and a condom advertising pharmacies as the first port of call for protection against AIDS; an advertisement by the Ministére du Travail et des Affaires Sociales, L'Assurance Maladie Sécurité Sociale, Ordre National des Pharmacies and CFES. Colour lithograph.

Date: [between 1990 and 1999]

A grocer's shop in England: doorway and shop window. Photograph.

Date: [1900?]

A black man buying some of J. Morison's pills, hoping they will make him white. Coloured lithograph.

Multi-coloured condoms with the message in French: "Condom and gel: the inseparable couple ... pleasure without risk"; including a list of condom makes from Bartoline to Wet; an advertisement by the Agence française de lutte contre le SIDA and SPG, Santé et Plaisir Gai. Colour lithograph.

Date: [between 1990 and 1999]

Ekins pharmacy, Melbourne, Victoria: the shop seen from the street, with the pharmacist and his family standing outside. Photograph by E.C. Waddington, ca. 1883/1884.

E.C. Waddington & Co.

Date: [1883/1884?]

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