Art Library / Apothecary
Apothecary
Herbals, retorts, phials and remedies, from Culpeper and Blackwell through to laboratory glass.
6 collections, 3,490 pieces in total. Pick a collection to see the art inside it.
Engraving
Skull lying on its side
From L. N. Fowler, New Illustrated Self-Instructor in Phrenology and Physiology , scan page 127
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Lemon extract label 01
From Harris & Company, New Sample Book of Cut and Gummed Druggists' Labels , scan page 36
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Toothed blade with ring eye
From Gardner D. Hiscox, Mechanical Movements, Powers and Devices , scan page 383
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Apothecary picks
Herbals, retorts, phials and remedies. The old pharmacy, from Culpeper and Blackwell through to laboratory glass.
Labels
Poison labels, prescription blanks, cologne and bitters labels, and the ornamental frames a chemist overprinted with a shop name.
Botanical
Flowers, ferns, leaves and wreaths traced from nineteenth-century botanical plates.
Fungi
Mushrooms, toadstools, bracket fungi and lichens from mycological iconographies.
Tools & Instruments
Compasses, calipers, theodolites, lancets and lathe work, engraved when an instrument was drawn as carefully as a portrait.
Herbals and Remedies
Medicinal plants cut for the apothecary, scanned from Blackwell's Curious Herbal and its kin.
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