"The artist introduces us to the laboratory of a so-called alchemist. A roguish Jew and his familiar are busily engaged in the transmutation of metals; the servant, with a pair of long- nozzled bellows, is engaged in kindling the furnace, in which is a crucible; various retorts, alembics, and other paraphernalia of the 'black arts,' are scattered about, as well as a formula for 'changing lead into gold'; although the alchemists at best could only contrive to accomplish the reverse transmutation. Suggestive prints are hung on the walls of this chamber of mystery, such as the portrait of the notorious 'Count Cagliostro, discoverer of the Philosopher's Stone,' and the figure of the spurious 'Bottle Conjurer.' A military officer, in the next apartment, is turning his opportunities to more practical advantage by embracing, with a certain display of ardour, a pretty maiden who is nothing loth, the daughter, it appears, of the philosophically minded investigator."--Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist
Alternative Title:
Searching for the philosophers stone
Description:
Title etched below image., Signed in image, lower left., Traces of burnished lettering in lower right corner of design., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Hoaxes: allusion to bottle conjurer -- Male costume -- Furniture: chest -- Philosopher's stone., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Sex behavior., and Matted to 46 x 52 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. March 12, 1800, at R. Ackermans Repository of the Arts, N. 101 Strand
Title etched below image., Date supplied by curator., In margin lower left: 410., After Robert Dighton., See Print00748., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Printed for Bowles & Carver, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard
Subject (Topic):
Medical consultation, Medical care, Cost of., Drugs, Prescribing, Drugstores, Mortars & pestles, Medicines, and Physicians
Title etched below image., Below title: Published as the Act directs, 4 June 1793, This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Title & inscriptions are on a piece of paper pasted into place over title A Comical Case.
Publisher:
Printed for & sold by Carington Bowles, No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Medical consultation, Medical care, Cost of., Drugs, Prescribing, Drugstores, Mortars & pestles, Medicines, and Physicians
Title from item., From: Seymour, Robert, New Readings of Old Authors, London: Tilt & Bogue, 1841., In margin lower right: As you like it. Act Sc., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Theater; Pharmacies, interior; Compounding of Drugs.
Publisher:
Tilt and Bogue
Subject (Name):
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Subject (Topic):
Pharmacists, Bitterness (Taste)., Mortars & pestles, Delivery boys, and Drugstores
A negro footman stands with a coin in his hand as he sings. Behind him a lawyer sits at his desk accepting a bag of money from his client; the lawyer's young assistant sits on the other side of the slanted desk. Through the open door to the street, a gentleman strolls in front of an apothecy's shop door, above which can be seen a mortar and pestle
Description:
Title engraved above image, Plate numbered '394' in the lower left corner., From the Laurie & Whttle series of Drolls., and Six stanzas in three columns engraved below image: Great way off at sea, where at home I've been-ee, Buckra man fetch me, from de coast of Guinea; Christian massa pray, he call me hathen doggy ...
Publisher:
Publish'd May 20th, 1805, by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Title from item., Date supplied by curator., Place of publication derived from street address., Published in Le Charivari, ca. 1843-1844., Above image: Les Malades et les Médecins 14., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Pharmacies, interior; Purgatives.
Publisher:
Chez Pannier Edit. R. du Croissant, 16 and Imp. d'Aubert & Cie
Subject (Topic):
Drugstores, Plaster (Pharmacy)., Drug development, Patent medicines, Snails, Lizards, Medical equipment & supplies, and Mortars & pestles
"Bedroom scene. A young couple kiss while washing their feet in the same tub. A plump and smiling woman brings in a warming-pan and bowl of posset."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a different version of the top image and "The interior of the shop of an apothecary with a veterinary practice. A stout and agonized lady, whose horse looks through the door, raises her riding-habit to expose a bare posterior on which the kneeling apothecary is about to place a plaster; a jar of 'Diaculam' [sic] is beside him. The operation is watched by an assistant grinding his pestle in a mortar, by a woman, and by a cat seated on a stool. Coloured jars are in the window, canisters and druggist's china pots with spouts are ranged on shelves, with placards: 'Pills Rec tr drops &c' and 'Patent Horse Balls Ointment for the Itch'. A stuffed fish hangs from the roof."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a different version of the bottom image
Alternative Title:
Cure for a cold
Description:
Titles etched below images., Attribution to Thomas Rowlandson from the Princeton University Library online catalog., Two images on one plate, each titled below and dated "1802" in lower left., Imperfect; sheet trimmed with loss of image and text. Description partially based on a more perfect impression of the 1812 reissue in the Princeton University Library, call no.: GA 2014.00335 D North 52/GC112/Box 11/Normal/Prints/Titles La-Mi., For a copy of the top image, see no. 11690 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8. For a copy of the bottom image, see no. 9465 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 371., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Foot baths -- Sex behavior -- Coryza -- Pharmacies, interior -- Compounding of drugs., 1 print : etching, hand colored ; sheet 157 x 219 mm., Imperfect; top image only, with title and lower image trimmed away., and Mounted, with black ink border. Manuscript title "Love in a tub or a cure for a cold" added in pencil on mounting sheet.
"Bedroom scene. A young couple kiss while washing their feet in the same tub. A plump and smiling woman brings in a warming-pan and bowl of posset."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a different version of the top image and "The interior of the shop of an apothecary with a veterinary practice. A stout and agonized lady, whose horse looks through the door, raises her riding-habit to expose a bare posterior on which the kneeling apothecary is about to place a plaster; a jar of 'Diaculam' [sic] is beside him. The operation is watched by an assistant grinding his pestle in a mortar, by a woman, and by a cat seated on a stool. Coloured jars are in the window, canisters and druggist's china pots with spouts are ranged on shelves, with placards: 'Pills Rec tr drops &c' and 'Patent Horse Balls Ointment for the Itch'. A stuffed fish hangs from the roof."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a different version of the bottom image
Alternative Title:
Cure for a cold
Description:
Titles etched below images., Attribution to Thomas Rowlandson from the Princeton University Library online catalog., Two images on one plate, each titled below and dated "1802" in lower left., Imperfect; sheet trimmed with loss of image and text. Description partially based on a more perfect impression of the 1812 reissue in the Princeton University Library, call no.: GA 2014.00335 D North 52/GC112/Box 11/Normal/Prints/Titles La-Mi., For a copy of the top image, see no. 11690 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 8. For a copy of the bottom image, see no. 9465 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 1, page 371., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Foot baths -- Sex behavior -- Coryza -- Pharmacies, interior -- Compounding of drugs., 1 print : etching, hand colored ; sheet 180 x 220 cm., and Imperfect; bottom image only, with upper image trimmed away.