"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
A scene inside an apothecary’s shop, with a surprised looking apothecary standing behind the counter serving a shifty looking male customer wearing a Scottish bonnet cap and tartan trousers. Behind the counter is a labelled drug run (a set of drawers for storing medicinal ingredients) and labelled drug jars (for storing prepared medicines); on and in front of the counter are pestles and mortars. The shop has carboys and drug jars on display in the windows to the right. The apothecary holds a plaster iron in his hand and is in the process mixing a preparation. See: Royal Pharmaceutical Society Museum online, Attitudes to Health Collection, Reference 997.17.7.
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Two lines of dialogue etched below title: Please Dockthar to gee me a baubee's worth o' brimstane, its no for mysel but for anither gentleman thats outside., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Pharmacies, interior.
