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  • An alchemist. Oil painting after Jan Havicksz. Steen, with a mirror below.
  • A physician examining a bare breasted female patient, an older woman passes him a syringe, a bawdy couple are in the background. Mezzotint by A. de Blois after J. Steen.
  • People playing a game of skittles (bowling) in the garden of an inn, as others sit on the grass drinking, smoking and chatting. Engraving by E. de Ghendt after J. Steen.
  • A physician taking the pulse. Oil painting after Jan Steen.
  • A medical practitioner taking a woman's pulse. Oil painting by a follower of Jan Havickz. Steen.
  • An alchemist. Oil painting after Jan Havicksz. 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.
  • A medical practitioner examines the urine and takes the pulse of a woman, while another man gives her advice. Oil painting in the manner of Jan Steen.
  • A physician writing a prescription for a sick young woman. Oil painting after Jan Steen.
  • The Congress of Berlin: Disraeli as a tooth-drawer, assisted by Queen Victoria, operates on Sultan Abdul Hamid II of the Ottoman Empire, surrounded by political figures from France, Germany etc. Coloured lithograph by J.J. van Brederode after Jan Steen, 1878.
  • A dingy tavern with backgammon players and an amorous couple observing a pregnant woman as she drinks. Mezzotint by J. Stolker after J. Steen.
  • A physician taking the pulse of a lovesick girl. Oil painting after Jan Havicksz. Steen.
  • An alchemist hunched over his crucible; an assistant reads him a recipe, watched by an onlooker; the alchemist's wife weeps in the dim background, a baby clasped to her breast. Engraving by J. Boydell, c. 1760, after J. Steen.
  • An alchemist. Oil painting after Jan Havicksz. Steen, with a mirror below.
  • An alchemist. Oil painting after Jan Havicksz. 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.
  • Alchemists. Oil painting after Jan Steen.
  • An alchemist. Oil painting after Jan Havicksz. Steen.
  • An alchemist. Oil painting after Jan Havicksz. Steen, with a mirror below.
  • A medical practitioner taking a woman's pulse. Oil painting by a follower of Jan Havickz. Steen.