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  • Pieter Bruegel, An 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.
  • The blind leading the blind. Oil painting after Pieter Bruegel.
  • The blind leading the blind. Oil painting after Pieter Bruegel.
  • The blind leading the blind. Oil painting after Pieter Bruegel.
  • Pieter Brueghel, A cripple with hand crutches.
  • Bastelaer's "Les estampes de Peter Bruegel L'ancien"
  • The parable of the blind leading the blind: six blind men walk in a line, the leader trips over, the second stumbles over him, the rest are set to follow. Process print after by P. Bruegel the elder, 1568.
  • A man plays the bagpipes as people dance in the village street. Etching after P. Bruegel.
  • A sleeping pedlar's posterior is examined by monkeys, who play with his goods. Line engraving after P. van Harlingen after P. Bruegel, c. 1610.
  • Three epileptic women each supported by two men. Engraving by H. Hondius the younger, 1642, after P. Brueghel.
  • Three epileptic women each supported by two men. Engraving by H. Hondius the younger, 1642, after P. Brueghel.
  • A woman stuffing sausages banters with a man about his not measuring up to the largest size. Engraving after M. van Cleve, ca. 1570.
  • Purgatory. Etching by E. Henne after P. Bruegel the elder.
  • An alchemist in his laboratory with his family: to the right they are shown calling at the poorhouse, destitute after the husband's failed experiments. Engraving after P. Bruegel, ca. 1558.
  • An alchemist in his laboratory with his family: to the right they are shown calling at the poorhouse, destitute after the husband's failed experiments. Engraving after P. Bruegel, ca. 1558.
  • A scene showing alms-giving of food, water, clothes and money; in the midst of this Charity is seen with a Pelican on her head holding a Sacred Heart. Line engraving by H. Cock after P. Bruegel, 1559.
  • Five legless men moving with the aid of crutches in a yard. Etching by F.D. Hillemacher after P. Bruegel, 1871.
  • Theo Heemskerk as an alchemist trying in vain to distill a report from members of a commission set up to reform the constitution of the Netherlands. Line block after J. Braakensiek, 1912.
  • An alchemist's laboratory inhabited by monkeys: to the right they are shown calling at the poorhouse, destitute after their obsessive, fruitless experiments. Etching by P. van der Borcht, ca. 1580.
  • A surgery where all fantasy and follies are purged and good qualities are prescribed. Line engraving by M. Greuter, c. 1600.
  • "Doctor Panurgus" curing the folly of his patients by purgative medicines and chemical cures. Line engraving attributed to Michael Droeshout, 16--.