"Distraught customers besiege an apothecary's counter. A fat man pounds with a pestle in a mortar; a dandified shopman serves; another, with a knowing wink, takes a canister from a shelf. A boy holds out a coin: 'I wants a pennorth O Camphor'. A man with a bottle demands 'Spirits of Wine and mustard'. A woman says 'I feel very poorly'. A man and a woman both call for 'Camphor' and a man with a jug says 'Soap Sir'. (For the cholera epidemic see British Museum Satires No. 16922, &c.)"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Attributed to Robert Seymour in the British Museum catalogue., One of three individually-titled Illustrations on page 2 of: McLean's monthly sheet of caricatures, or, The looking glass. No. 24 (1 December 1831)., Sheet trimmed with loss of the other two llustrations issued on the same page., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Pharmacies, interior.
Publisher:
T. McLean
Subject (Topic):
Cholera, Drugstores, Interiors, Mortars & pestles, Counters, and Consumers
