Portrait of the drug grinder William Wilson (1709-1815), known as ‘Mortar Willie’, who supposedly worked as a drug grinder for various apothecaries, chemists and druggists in Edinburgh until his 106th year. He is shown seated, using a large pestle and mortar
Alternative Title:
William Wilson, commonly called Mortar Willie
Description:
Title etched below image. and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Apothecaries -- Compounding of drugs.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Wilson, William, 1709-1815,
Subject (Topic):
Old age, Pharmacists, Drugs, Dosage forms, Mortars & pestles, and Older people
Portrait of the drug grinder William Wilson (1709-1815), known as ‘Mortar Willie’, who supposedly worked as a drug grinder for various apothecaries, chemists and druggists in Edinburgh until his 106th year. He is shown seated, using a large pestle and mortar
Alternative Title:
William Wilson, commonly called Mortar Willie
Description:
Title etched below image., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Apothecaries -- Compounding of drugs., and 1 print : etching ; plate mark 194 x 152 mm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Wilson, William, 1709-1815,
Subject (Topic):
Old age, Pharmacists, Drugs, Dosage forms, Mortars & pestles, and Older people
Title from item., Place of publication and date supplied by curator., Title is followed by seven more lines of verse., Below image right: 66., 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: Compounding of Drugs.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Pharmacists, Pharmaceutical industry, Valentines, Medicines, and Mortars & pestles
Title supplied by curator., Date derived from printmaker's date of death., Place of publication from item., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Aesculapius (Roman deity).
Subject (Topic):
Pharmacology, Gods, Putti, Mortars & pestles, and Snakes
Title supplied by curator., Plate 48 from: Joseph von Baumeister, Die Welt in Bildern, Vienna: Johann Baptist Wallishausser, 1794., Above image: No. 48., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Pharmacy, interior., and Insert of accompanying text.
Publisher:
Verlag ben Johann Baptist Wallishausser, F. F. priv. Buchhändler
Subject (Topic):
Pharmacists, Drugstores, Medicines, Mortars & pestles, and Fish
An apothecary kneels at the feet of a pretty young woman, one hand on his breast, the other pointing to a cloth at his feet on which are spread a clyster-pipe, shears, pestle and mortar, a bottle, and a canister of "Love Pow[der?]". Behind them is a piano; in the background on the right is a slightly open door, around which an amused woman and man view the scene
Description:
Title devised by curator., Signed and dated by the artist in lower left., "VWN" within oval in lower right corner, probably a collector's stamp or mark, For a print after Rowlandson of similar design, see no. 11114 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 8., This 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: Apothecaries.
Subject (Topic):
Pharmacists, Courtship, Medical equipment & supplies, Mortars & pestles, Pianos, and Doors & doorways
Title from item., Date derived from printmaker's dates of activity., Place of publication derived from printmaker's country of residence., In lower margin: Almeriae apud Ioannem van Beyeren, Bibliopolam., Possibly frontispiece from: Jan van Beyeren, Pharmacopoea almeriana galeno-chymicas, published Alkmaar, 1723., 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; Scientific apparatus.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Almería (Spain).
Subject (Topic):
Pharmacists, Scientific equipment, Mortars & pestles, and Drugstores
Title supplied by curator., After the painting, "The Apothecary" of ca. 1661, held in the Louvre., Date derived from date of original painting., Place of publication derived from artist's country of residence., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., Illegible pencil notation on verso., and Stamp of Alfred Misch on verso.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Physicians, Mortars & pestles, Globes, Bottles, Pharmacists, and Writing materials
"An apothecary's shop, the walls covered by jars closely ranged on shelves, a stuffed fish hanging from the ceiling. Behind a curtain (right) Death, wearing an apron, pounds at a mortar of 'slow Poison', looking gleefully in a mirror to watch the customers. The fat quack compounds medicines at the counter. A grotesque crowd of agonized patients enters through a doorway (left) inscribed 'Apothecaries Hall'. Two sit in arm-chairs. The jars are 'Canthar[ides]', 'Arsnic', 'Opium', 'Nitre', 'Vitriol', 'Elixir', with (right) 'Restorativ Drops'."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
I have a secret art to cure each malady, which men endure
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue, taken from the heading to the printed page opposite the plate in The English dance of death., Couplet etched below image: I have a secret art to cure / each malady, which men endure., Attributed to Rowlandson in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint from top margin and verses from bottom margin. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Plate from: Combe, W. The English dance of death. London : Published at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts ..., 1815-1816, v. 1, opposite page 85., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Skeleton as death -- Pharmacy, interior -- Apothecaries.
Publisher:
Pub. July 1- 1814, at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
Combe, William, 1742-1823.
Subject (Topic):
Death (Personification), Quacks and quackery, Skeletons, Interiors, Drugstores, Pharmacists, Mortars & pestles, Sick persons, Medicines, Shelving, Containers, and Mirrors
