A woman in a pharmacy with a urine flask and a monkey holding an empty flask at a casement. Oil painting by Willem Joseph Laquy, 1780 (?), after J. Toorenvliet, 1677.
- Toornvliet, Jacob, 1635-1719.
- Date:
- 1780
- Reference:
- 47376i
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Description
The setting is a working pharmacy with drug jars shelved around the walls. The wicker basket is of the type used in the seventeenth century to transport urine flasks (such as the one held by the man in the companion painting (47375i)) to a physician's house for diagnosis and prognosis
Publication/Creation
1780
Physical description
1 painting : oil on canvas ; canvas 47 x 39 cm
Related material
Companion painting to (work): A physician or apothecary examining a flask at a casement. Oil painting by Willem Joseph Laquy, 1780. (b14658252)
Lettering
Laqui. 1760 GVI../1780
Notes
A digital image of the two companion paintings side-by-side has reference L0025951
Reference
Wellcome Collection 47376i
Exhibitions note
Exhibited in ‘The Cult of Beauty’ at Wellcome Collection, London, 26 October 2023 – 28 April 2024
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