A male figure composed of utensils used in the business of an apothecary holds in one "hand" a volume titled, 7. Frauds detected in drugs, and in the other a scroll inscribed: "We are all in the dumps, our bill is rejected and flung out." Under the apothecary's "belt," formed by the barrel's hoop, is secured a paper inscribed "Quincys Dispensary." The utensils making up the figure are numbered, and the key identifying them is engraved below the image of the figure. The whole is enclosed in an ornamental cartouche. Reference to an Apothecaries' petition
Description:
Title from item., Date based on reference in the image to a pamphlet published in 1748 and a failed bill of the same year. See Frauds detected, or, Considerations offered to the public : shewing the necessity of some more effectual provision against deceits, differences, and incertainties in drugs ..., One of a series of prints representing various tradesmen made up from tools of their own trade., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
