An apothecary wearing a gown and skull cap, pouring fluid from a bottle. Chalk drawing by or after H. Stacy Marks.

  • Marks, Henry Stacy, 1829-1898.
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37878i
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Previous title, replaced September 2023 : A chemist in a gown and skull cap, pouring fluid from a bottle. Chalk drawing.

Description

The shelf and table contains flasks, a mortar, funnels and botanical drawings. The arm of a skeleton (Death?) reaches down from the top right corner, curling around a portrait of a young woman

Physical description

1 drawing : grey and black chalk

Lettering

A composition by Henry Stacy Marks, representing the apothecary in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1876

Creator/production credits

Top of the artist's initials visible, but indistinct, in bottom right corner

Reference

Wellcome Collection 37878i

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