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Figure 1. ‘Oil painting of a man smoking an opium pipe’ (Science Museum, London). This painting of a man smoking an opium pipe used to hang in the opium den run by Ah Sing (d. 1890), in New Court, Victoria Street, London. Ah Sing’s opium den was the model for the one described in Charles Dickens’ unfinished final story 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood'. It was probably the most famous of the dens in Victorian London and Dickens was just one of a number of well known individuals who visited it – presumably for research purposes. Maker: Unknown maker Place made: Europe.
by Xuelei Huang and Gemma McLean-Carr
Figure 1. ‘Cod. Min. 53, vol. 10, fol. 513r: Florilegium of Prince Eugene of Savoy: Iris’, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (National Library), Austria. Public Domain.
by India Cole
François Boucher, La Toilette, 1742, oil on canvas, 52.5 x 66.5 cm, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Inv. no. 58 (1967.4).
by Clara May
Figure 5. A physician dressed in protective plague costume. Line engraving after J.J. Manget, 1700-1799. Wellcome Collection, 10075i
by Rose Byfleet
Figure 1. A coffee plant (coffea arabica)… bordered by six scenes illustrating its use by man, coloured lithograph, c.1840. 225mm x 180mm. London, Wellcome Collection, 28052i (Public Domain Mark). https://wellcomecollection.org/works/cqraukw4/items
by James Brown
Figure 1. A dune stinkhorn Phallus hadriani. The mushroom is easily discernible from other species of stinkhorn by its pinkish volva from which the fungus sprouts forth. (Photograph by Siôn Parkinson, 2022.)
by Siôn Parkinson
Figure 1. After P. Renouard, Wormwood Scrubs prison, London: four cooks in prison uniform standing in a line in front of buckets and baskets, process print, 1889, 15 x 20.8 cm, Wellcome Collection 37857i
by William Tullett
Linnaeus’ classification of odours in his Clavis Medicinae
by Ally Louks
Hops being cut down and harvested: six scenes.
by Jonathan Reinarz
Figure 1. A rarer example of the adoration of the Magi scene in which frankincense is not just given but burnt, Jacob Gole, after Carlo Maratta, ‘Adoration of the Magi’, 1670-1724, mezzotint and engraving, 25.6 x 17.5cm, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, RP-P-1888-A-13907
by William Tullett