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  • William Allen, portrayed as an alchemist with several furnaces, the one which he stokes is labelled "Matter o'money". Coloured etching by T. Jones, 1827.
  • Perkin jubilee : American committee.
  • Friedrich Bergius (1884-1949) Chemist of Heidelberg
  • The interior of a chemical laboratory with six people working in it (above), a table of symbols (below). Coloured line engraving after L.-J. Goussier.
  • A chemist creates a new form of gunpowder - incombustible; representing a futile new invention. Coloure lithograph by J.-B.-D. Bourdel, 1835.
  • A chemist preparing medicine; advertising Schering's Urotropina tablets. Lithograph after Leonhard Fries.
  • A French chemist in his laboratory. Photograph, 1880/1890.
  • M0001321: Portrait of Joseph Black (1728-1799), Scottish physicist and chemist. Original stipple engraving by J. (James) Posselwhite (1798-1884)
  • M0004544: Portrait of Stéphane Marcel Delépine (1871-1965)
  • M0006616: Portrait of Justus von Liebig (1803-1873)
  • M0006616: Portrait of Justus von Liebig (1803-1873)
  • Perkin jubilee : American committee.
  • A young man blowing a bellows, while an alchemist, chemist or goldsmith watches through spectacles. Engraving by C. Guttenberg after F. van Mieris.
  • Perkin jubilee : American committee.
  • M0004480: Pasteur's Jubilee, Paris, 1892
  • Joseph Priestley (above) and Antoine Lavoisier (below) Line engraving by R. Caldwall, 1801, after J. Opie and J.-L. David.
  • A young man blowing a bellows, while an alchemist, chemist or goldsmith watches through spectacles. Engraving by C. Guttenberg after F. van Mieris.
  • An alchemist or chemist examining a liquid. Oil painting attributed to Charles-Emile François, 1841.
  • The powers of Europe as alchemists who dissolve the alliance of German princes with Napoleon. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1813.
  • Nicholas Joseph, Freiherr von Jacquin, and his brother Joseph Franz. Line engraving by Mathieu, 1802, after a wax medallion by L. Posch.
  • A young man blowing a bellows, while an alchemist, chemist or goldsmith watches through spectacles. Engraving by C. Guttenberg after F. van Mieris.
  • Frederick Belding Power. Photograph.
  • Abbé Jean-Antoine Nollet demonstrating chemical experiments to a party of ladies and gentlemen. Engraving, ca. 1750.
  • A chemist examining a flask of golden liquid, with a book and chemical apparatus. Colour process print.
  • Makers of chemistry / by Eric John Holmyard.
  • M0004641: Portrait of Thomas Graham (1805-1869)
  • A man with bronchitis asks a chemist for a remedy. Wood engraving after C. Keene.
  • M0006616: Portrait of Justus von Liebig (1803-1873)
  • A chemist and his assistant as "puffers" heating a substance in a retort; representing a theatre critic who "puffs" the actor Joseph Holman at the bidding of his editor. Etching attributed to T. Rowlandson, ca. 1786.
  • M0004641: Portrait of Thomas Graham (1805-1869)