An apothecary making up a prescription using scales, his wife holds a recipe for him and two assistants are working with the bellows and pestle and mortar. Line engraving by F. Baretta after P. Mainoto.

  • Mainoto, Pietro.
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16371i
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1 print : line engraving ; platemark 33.6 x 41.2 cm

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Lo speziale. Per serbar della vita il gran tesoro si paga all'impostura ampia mercede, e compra l'uom che al medico da fede poc' erba secchi frusti a peso d'oro. C.P.E.S. Petrus Mainoto inv. ; Francis Baretta sculp.

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