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  • A woman performing chemical experiments with a furnace: representing chemistry. Etching by E-J-N. de Ghendt after C-N. Cochin the younger, 1773.
  • A chemist creates a new form of gunpowder - incombustible; representing a futile new invention. Coloure lithograph by J.-B.-D. Bourdel, 1835.
  • A chemist's laboratory, with the apparatus numbered for a key. Engraving, 1748.
  • Michael Faraday lecturing at the Royal Institution: Prince Albert and his sons in the audience. Wood engraving, 1856, after A. Blaikley.
  • An alchemist in a short orange gown blowing bellows into a still with an alembic. Pastel drawing.
  • A philosopher in his study, reading a book containing a print of a skeleton. Etching by J.A. von Prenner, 1728, after C. Paudiss.
  • An alchemist stoking a furnace in a dimly lit room, as daylight shines through a window. Engraving by P-F. Basan after T. Wyck.
  • Johannes Daniel Mylius. Line engraving, 1620.
  • A putto pours a phial into a dragon's mouth, pumping a bellows with his other hand; representing the fixing of volatile matter in the alchemical process. Watercolour painting by E.A. Ibbs.
  • Louis Pasteur, standing, holding eyeglasses, with chemical apparatus and books. Chromolithograph.
  • A chemical laboratory and a table of chemical relations. Engraving by Prévost after L.J. Goussier, 1763.
  • Workers using apparatus in a chemical laboratory. Etching, ca. 1769.
  • An alchemist wearing a tall hat, sitting at a table containing his chemical instruments. Lithograph by H. Wood after F. Howard.
  • Four scenes from W. Combe's verse Dr. Last or the devil upon two sticks, a parody of the Royal college of physicians and John Fothergill (in particular). Engraving, 1771, after W. Combe.
  • A seated man in a monk's habit, blowing bellows, with an alembic. Pencil drawing.
  • King George III analysing the residue from a large glass retort containing a small figure; representing the English view of Napoleon. Coloured aquatint by T. West, 1803.
  • An alchemist with an assistant in his laboratory. Lithograph after D. Teniers the younger, 1650.
  • Interior of a pharmaceutical laboratory behind a shop, with people at work, the shop is visible through a doorway. Engraving, 1747.
  • A crowned alchemical flask containing a young king, dressed in red, representing the culmination of the alchemical process. Watercolour painting by E.A. Ibbs.
  • Four scenes from W. Combe's verse Dr. Last or the devil upon two sticks, a parody of the Royal College of Physicians, and in particular John Fothergill. Engraving after W. Combe.
  • Hennig Brand, the German alchemist, discovering phosphorus. Etching, 19th century.
  • An apothecary wearing a gown and skull cap, pouring fluid from a bottle. Chalk drawing by or after H. Stacy Marks.
  • An old physician is taking a young woman's pulse and pointing to her heart, implying that she is suffering from lovesickness, the physicians' assistant is grinning and mixing a concoction. Engraving by I.S. Helman, 1775, after J.B. Leprince, 1773.
  • An alchemist reading a book; his assistants stirring the crucible on the other side of the room. Engraving by P.F. Basan after D. Teniers the younger.
  • An alchemist peering into a glass vessel. Mezzotint by F.R. Say, 1819, after J. Northcote.
  • A young woman, perhaps Prudentia, warns an alchemist of the dangers of abusing fire: in the background fires rage in buildings and mines. Oil painting after Marten de Vos.
  • A coal porter, an alchemist and a rich man who hopes vainly to profit from alchemy. Etching, 18th century.
  • Chemists and workers operating distilling apparatus in a laboratory. Engraving by P. Galle (?) after J. van der Straet.
  • A three-headed eagle in a crowned alchemical flask, representing mercury sublimated three times. Watercolour painting by E.A. Ibbs.
  • A man in the foreground conducts an alchemical experiment with an alembic; in the background a female figure representing the world looks at a chemist, who prepares an oxygen experiment with a glass jar and a candle; representing the historical transition from alchemy to chemistry. Stipple engraving by J. Chapman, 1805, after R. Corbould.