Enter Apothecary

• Engraved by William Blake, after Henry Fuseli
  Made in London
• Image: 8.125 x 4.75 in.
  Engraving on wove paper
• Not on display
• Gift of Fisher Scientific International
• Fisher Collection
• FA 2000.001.208
• No known copyright restrictions

Description

The apothecary scene from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in which Romeo, believing Juliet is dead, visits an alchemist to buy poison to kill himself.

Inscription

Romeo. Come hither Man- I see, that thou art poor./ Hold, there's forty ducats:-