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  • J.R. Glauber, Distillation apparatus in The Works
  • Early forms of distillation apparatus- alembics with one or more receivers.
  • Chemistry: distilling apparatus. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1802.
  • Dr. Normandy's water-distilling apparatus, at Aden. Wood engraving.
  • A Chinese (?) man working with distilling apparatus. Coloured engraving by A. Freschi, 1812.
  • Three Wallachian men round a log fire with distilling apparatus nearby. Wood engraving, ca. 1870.
  • A large chemical laboratory filled with distilling apparatus and many types of glass vessel. Engraving, 177-.
  • Chemists and workers operating distilling apparatus in a laboratory. Engraving by P. Galle (?) after J. van der Straet.
  • Chemists and workers operating distilling apparatus in a laboratory. Engraving by P. Galle (?) after J. van der Straet.
  • Three distillers with streams running from their noses and mouths into a tub of "double rectified spirits". Coloured etching, 1811, after T. Rowlandson.
  • Three distillers with streams running from their noses and mouths into a tub of "double rectified spirits". Coloured etching, 1811, after T. Rowlandson.
  • A still house in a whiskey distillery. Wood engraving, late 19th century.
  • An apothecary drawing a distillate from one of four stills heated by a single oven. Woodcut.
  • An apothecary drawing a distillate from one of four stills heated by a single oven. Woodcut.
  • The distillery of Deacon Giles seen as the work of the Devil. Coloured wood-engraving after G. B. Cheever, ca. 1835.
  • The distillery of Deacon Giles seen as the work of the Devil. Coloured wood-engraving after G. B. Cheever, ca. 1835.
  • A physician, a woman patient and an alchemist (?). Oil painting attributed to Jan Josef Horemans I.
  • An evil magician raises demons from a distillery tub as onlookers fall back amazed. Coloured aquatint, c. 1808, after S. De Wilde.
  • Five labelled sections through parts of a porter brewery. Engraving by W. Lowry, c. 1816, after J. Farey.
  • An elderly anatomist contemplates the heart that he has excised from the corpse of a beautiful, young woman. Photogravure by R. Schuster, 1907, after a painting by E. Simonet, 1890.
  • An elderly anatomist contemplates the heart that he has excised from the corpse of a beautiful, young woman. Photogravure by R. Schuster, 1906, after a painting by E. Simonet, 1890.
  • A man and a woman demonstrating the process of fermentation and distillation in alchemy. Etching, ca. 17th century.
  • The chemical laboratory of Ambrose Godfrey: : the distilling room. Etching attributed to W.H. Toms after H. Gravelot.
  • Richard Burdon Haldane as an alchemist using bellows, representing his eloquence, to distil a new military unit from three older units. Pen drawing by A.S. Boyd, 1907.
  • A drunken man and woman lean against pillars leading to a giant distillery with attendant demon; miscellaneous characters round as border. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1833, after himself.
  • Hennig Brand, the German alchemist, discovering phosphorus. Etching, 19th century.
  • A scholar in a surgeon's workroom with a jar of spirits containing Saint Michael defeating a dragon with a barbued tonge; representing the scholar's knowledge of chemistry enabling surgeons to heal, by setting the beneficent force of alkalis against the noxious force of acids. Etching by P.P. Bouche, ca. 1686.
  • Hennig Brand, the German alchemist, discovering phosphorus. Etching, 19th century.
  • Allegorical and historical scenes of medicine: including a dissection and a distillation laboratory, and Hygieia receiving the organic and mineral bounty of the earth employed in remedies. Engraving by J.F. Fleischberger, 1660.
  • The pharmacy of J. Cassel, founded in 1683 at 4 Rue de la Barre, Dieppe: detail of the timpanum above the entrance. Photograph.