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Hand-colored 1816 aquatint of an apothecary shop with jars, a crowd at left, a skeleton at right, and a seated man in a hat.

The dance of death: the apothecary. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.

A hand-colored aquatint shows an apothecary's shop lined with glass jars and bottles, where a robed apothecary stands behind a counter while a crowd of figures gathers at left. A skeleton stands at right beside a seated, heavyset man in a tricorn hat, and a small dog sits in the lower left corner.

Artist
Thomas Rowlandson
Date
1816
Medium
Aquatints
Source
Wellcome Collection
Size
4000 × 2652 px
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Public domain · Wellcome Collection marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1816.
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: Public Domain Mark (Wellcome Collection)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Wellcome Collection

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