Potion Collection

Scene from Shakespeares Midsummer Nights Dream
A scene from Shakespeares comedy, A Midsummer Nights Dream (Act II, Scene ii), in which Puck drops a love potion into the sleeping Titanias eyes

Russian bottle of love medicine
A Russian bottle of love medicine - girl not generally included... Date: 1910

Chemist Shop C19Th
A reconstruction of an old chemist shop in the Black Country Museum

Romeo & Juliet / Friar
Act IV Juliet visits Friar Lawrence in his cell and procures a sleeping potion

Apothecary in his shop using a mortar and pestle to prepare a medicine. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades and Library of the Useful Arts, Tabart, London, 1810

Quack doctor - Here you may be cured
Here you may be cured! - a 17th century quack doctor stands beside his counter, strewn with wonderful potions and elixirs to cure all ailments. Date: circa 1670

An Elixir of Love by W. S. Gilbert
Illustration from a short story, An Elixir of Love by W. S. Gilbert in The Graphic Christmas Number 1876, which was the basis for Gilbert and Sullivans 1877 operetta The Sorcerer

Lovely Legs Cream
Model Esme Bankhead applies moisturising cream to her lovely legs. Date: 1940s

Witch at Halloween
A witch brewing a potion to make a spell of joy at Halloween. Date: circa 1910

Amina Becomes a Horse
Receive the reward of your crimes ! - Amina receives the magic potion in her face from her husband Sidi-Nouman, and is forthwith transformed into a horse - permanently

Witch doing Magic
A witch brews a magic potion in her cottage, chanting incantations as she does it

Boy drinking up champagne from a feast
Rests of the feast. 1885. Engraving. Date: 1885

Large spider in web
A large spider sits patiently, watching as his web does all the work, reeling in his prey. 1925

Siegfried Drinks Potion
Act one : Siegfried drinks the magic potion, which causes him to forget Brunnhilde and to fall in love with Gutrune

Tristram & Isolde
The love potion takes effect. While Tristram is escorting Iseult, King Marks bride, they take a potion intended for her wedding night & become lovers

Hagen & Brunnhilde

British Ballad, The Gay Goshawk
THE GAY HOSHAWK. British ballad about a Scottish squire who sends letters to his love by a goshawk. He tells her that he will die for love

Depart for Sabbat
Witches prepare the magic potion which will enable them to ride their broomsticks to the Sabbat

Witches & Cauldron
MIDSOMMARNATT in Sweden : While the older witches brew a magic potion, younger ones dance round the cauldron, and cats and bats screech and squeak

Tristram / The Love Potion
Tristram drinks the love potion

Brewing a Potion
Two witches brew a potion, adding a cock and a snake to the seething cauldron

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