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Books

Bell, Jacob and Redwood, Theophilus, Historical Sketch of the Progress of Pharmacy in Great Britain, London 1880
Bills, Mark and Knight, Vivien (eds.), William Powell Frith, London 2006-11-15 Frith, W.P., My Autobiography and Reminiscences, London 1890.
Holloway, S.W.F., Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. A political and social history. London 1991.
Lennie, Campbell, Landseer: The Victorian Paragon, London 1976.
Maas, Jeremy, Gambart: Prince of the Victorian Art World, London 1975
Macleod, Dianne Sachko, Art and the Victorian Middle Class, Cambridge 1996
Noakes, Aubrey, William Frith : Extraordinary Victorian Painter, London 1978.
Ormond, Richard, The Monarch of the Glen : Landseer in the Highlands, Edinburgh 2005
Sir Edwin Landseer: [exhibition catalogue], Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1981
Wallis, Nevile (ed.), A Victorian Canvas : the Memoirs of W. P. Frith, London 1957
Wood, Christopher, William Powell Frith: A Painter and his World, Stroud 2006

Journal articles

Anon. ‘Thomas Hyde Hills’ [death notice], The Chemist and Druggist, November 28 1891
Anon. ‘Death of Jacob Bell’, The Pharmaceutical Journal, July 1 1859.
Anon. ‘Sketch of the life of Jacob Bell’, The Pharmaceutical Journal, 1859-1860.
Ince, Joseph, ‘Recollections of Jacob Bell’, The Chemist and Druggist, April 18 1891

Archival Sources

• National Archives
• National Art Library, Victoria and Albert Museum - Letters to Frith and Landseer
• National Gallery
• Royal Institution
• Royal Manchester Institution – correspondence and inventories
• Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain
• Library of the Religious Society of Friends, London
• Tate
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