The Village Chemist

• 1760
• Justus Juncker, German
• 25.5 x 34 in.
  Oil on canvas
• Not on display
• Gift of Fisher Scientific International
• Fisher Collection
• FA 2000.001.274
• No known copyright restrictions

Description

In a light-filled workshop a physician is seated at a table covered with an imported red carpet; he is writing with a quill. He appears to be writing a prescription for the man waiting beside the desk. Scattered on the clean floor are books and pots. In the background three men are working beside a furnace and a distillation apparatus.