An interior of an affluent apothecary's shop - a wounded young man is being examined. Coloured aquatint attributed to M. Egerton, 1824.

London : W. Egerton, 1824.

1 print : aquatint, with watercolour ; platemark 21.3 x 27.4 cm

Sauntering down Bond Street, in the evening ... Lettering continues: 'to, "lose & neglect the creeping hours of time", espied an acquaintance on the opposite side of the way; ever alive to the chance of a supper, darted across, when a heedless "Knight of the whip", passing with his crazy vehicle, laid me senseless; thus convey'd to the shop of an apothecary, was stript to ascertain where I was injured. "When sorrows come, they come not single handed, but in battalions", had the mortification of being sufficiently sensible to be aware of the exposure of my wardrobe, without the power to prevent it, lost my supper, but gained a few bruises.'

J.K. Crellin and J.R. Scott, Glass and British pharmacy 1600-1900, London 1972, p. 5 (reproduced)

J.R. Abbey, Life in England in aquatint and lithography 1770-1860, San Francisco 1991, p. 253, no. 289.5 (attributed to M. Egerton)

Wellcome Collection 15970i