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  • A man polishing semi-precious (?) stones. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Geology: various uncut semi-precious stones. Coloured lithograph by H. Sowerby after himself, 1851.
  • Brocade-makers embroidering a fabric with gold silk and precious stones. Woodcut by J. Amman.
  • A floral border for pietra dura (marble inlaid with semi-precious stones). Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • A floral design for pietra dura (marble inlaid with semi-precious stones). Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • A floral pattern for pietra dura (marble inlaid with semi-precious stones). Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • A flowering plant; a design for pietra dura (marble inlaid with semi-precious stones). Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • A floral pattern in a cartouche for pietra dura work (marble inlaid with semi-precious stones). Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • A diamond cutters' wheel in use (top), and a plan and perspective of the wheel with various components (below). Etching by Defehrt after L.J. Goussier.
  • A lapidary, sitting at his foot-operated grinding wheel (above), an elevation and plan of his worktable (below). Engraving by B. L. Prevost after J. N. F. Boucher.
  • T. Nicols, Gemmarius Fidelius, or the Faithf
  • A catalogue of the Portland Museum, lately the property of the Dutchess Dowager of Portland, deceased: which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Skinner and Co. on Monday the 24th of April, 1786 ... at her late dwelling-house, in Privy-garden, Whitehall / [by the Rev. J. Lightfoot].
  • A man lying dead on the ground with a broken bottle; a woman sits crying at his side. Lithograph by C. Schacher, c. 1845, after J. Faed.
  • Three-tiered symbolic diagram of the art of alchemy: top level, symbols of the states of matter; middle level, cabalistic diagrams; lower level, the two techniques of alchemy: distillation and calcination. Engraving by R. Custos, 1616.
  • Three-tiered symbolic diagram of the art of alchemy: top level, symbols of the states of matter; middle level, cabalistic diagrams; lower level, the two techniques of alchemy: distillation and calcination. Engraving by R. Custos, 1616.
  • Three-tiered symbolic diagram of the art of alchemy: top level, symbols of the states of matter; middle level, cabalistic diagrams; lower level, the two techniques of alchemy: distillation and calcination. Engraving by R. Custos, 1616.
  • The smith Jan Lutma, designated as a portrait of a member of the Molins family. Oil painting after Rembrandt.
  • 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.