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  • Alchemists (?). Oil painting.
  • Alchemists. Oil painting after Jan Steen.
  • The powers of Europe as alchemists who dissolve the alliance of German princes with Napoleon. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1813.
  • Two alchemists seeming to produce gold from a furnace; the accompanying text satirises those who pursue alchemy for gold alone. Engraving by C. Weigel, 1698.
  • A group of three 'puffers' (uninitiated alchemists) reading books, and a credulous peasant trying his luck at alchemy, his weeping wife and miserable child trying to detain him from alchemical pursuit. Engraving by F. Godefroy after J. Steen.
  • A group of three 'puffers' (uninitiated alchemists) reading books, and a credulous peasant trying his luck at alchemy, his weeping wife and miserable child trying to detain him from alchemical pursuit. Engraving by F. Godefroy after J. Steen.
  • Basil Valentine contemplates a chemical jar containing homunculi of a man and woman holding hands, and a child emanating from them (alchemical symbol of conception); he is suddenly visited by Sabine Stuart de Chevalier, who reveals that she has the key to his works and crowns him as the king of alchemists. Etching by J. Le Roy, ca. 1781, after Hostoul after Sabine Stuart de Chevalier.
  • M0006876: The Alchemist
  • Pieter Bruegel, An alchemist
  • An alchemist's laboratory. Oil painting.
  • An alchemist's laboratory. Oil painting.
  • Alchemist's Laboratory showing original apparatus.
  • Alchemist's Laboratory showing original apparatus.
  • 'Distillatio', scene in an alchemist laboratory
  • Jabir ibn Hayyan Geber, Arabian alchemist
  • An alchemist working in a laboratory.
  • Portrait of Cornelius van Drebbel, alchemist.
  • An alchemist. Oil painting after Pieter Bruegel.
  • An alchemist. Oil painting after Pieter Bruegel.
  • An alchemist. Oil painting after Pieter Bruegel.
  • An alchemist. Oil painting after Pieter Bruegel.
  • An alchemist. Oil painting after Pieter Bruegel.
  • Alchemist in his laboratory, by Thomas Wyck.
  • M0006965: An alchemist reading in a laboratory
  • M0006965: An alchemist reading in a laboratory
  • M0006965: An alchemist reading in a laboratory
  • M0006965: An alchemist reading in a laboratory
  • An alchemist. Oil painting by Eugène Lomont, 1890.
  • An alchemist. Oil painting by Eugène Lomont, 1890.
  • An alchemist. Oil painting by Eugène Lomont, 1890.