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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