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'Troy Town', 1498-1515, (1843). Scene showing the rebuilding of the city by its legendary king, Priam, after it had been sacked by Hercules. Beneath the right-hand side of gate is a chemist or apothecary weighing out his drugs, while another pounds them in a mortar. Illustration from Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages from the Seventh to the Seventeenth Centuries, by Henry Shaw, (London, 1843).