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A woman. Oil painting.
Reference: 45828i- Pictures
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Saint Nicholas. Oil painting.
Date: [Italy?]Reference: 44813i- Pictures
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Saint George. Oil painting by a Georgian painter.
Reference: 46027i- Pictures
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A woman in a shift contemplating a miniature painting of her lover. Engraving.
Date: 1700-1799Reference: 33226i- Pictures
Interior with doctor, assistant, old woman and girl. Oil painting by Egbert van Heemskerck.
Heemskerck, Egbert van, 1634 or 1635-1704.Reference: 44706i- Pictures
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Tibetan cosmological amulet for protection against diseases. Gouache painting, Tibet.
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Joseph Addison and Sir Roger de Coverley: an inn-sign with the head of Sir Roger is retouched as the Saracen's Head. Lithograph by T.H. Maguire after W.P. Frith, 1867.
Frith, William Powell, 1819-1909.Date: 1860-1869Reference: 2821949i- Pictures
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A queen dressed in blue, representing mercury, in a crowned alchemical flask. Watercolour painting by E.A. Ibbs.
Ibbs, Edith A.Date: 1900-1909Reference: 38826iPart of: Splendor solis- Pictures
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A three-headed eagle in a crowned alchemical flask, representing mercury sublimated three times. Watercolour painting by E.A. Ibbs.
Ibbs, Edith A.Date: 1900-1909Reference: 38823iPart of: Splendor solis- Pictures
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Electricity: condenser jars, an electro-static generator, and a vase with flowers. Gouache painting.
Date: 1800-1899Reference: 47533i- Pictures
A crowd watching a troupe of quack-doctors on a stage outside an inn. Oil painting by a Flemish painter, ca. 1640(?).
Date: [between 1600 and 1699]Reference: 45030i- Pictures
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A young man holding a rod with a shaped end (sceptre?) and a round object. Reverse glass painting by a Qajar artist, 182-.
Date: [between 1820 and 1829]Reference: 5423i- Pictures
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A crowned alchemical flask containing a young king, dressed in red, representing the culmination of the alchemical process. Watercolour painting by E.A. Ibbs.
Ibbs, Edith A.Date: 1900-1909Reference: 38827iPart of: Splendor solis- Pictures
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A three headed monster in an alchemical flask, representing the composition of the alchemical philosopher's stone: salt, sulphur, and mercury. Watercolour painting by E.A. Ibbs.
Ibbs, Edith A.Date: 1900-1909Reference: 38824iPart of: Splendor solis- Pictures
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A peacock in a crowned alchemical flask; representing the stage in the alchemical process when the substance breaks out into many colours. Watercolour painting by E.A. Ibbs.
Ibbs, Edith A.Date: 1900-1909Reference: 38825iPart of: Splendor solis- Pictures
The face of the sun surrounded by signs of the zodiac. Painting.
Reference: 584930i- Pictures
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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.
Ibbs, Edith A.Date: 1900-1909Reference: 38820iPart of: Splendor solis- Pictures
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An artist and his client before a painting of Bacchus. Wood engraving, 1877, after J.L.E. Meissonier.
Meissonier, Jean Louis Ernest, 1815-1891.Date: 1877Reference: 33180i- Pictures
Squares and animals representing astrological signs for Tibetan divination. Watercolour or distemper painting, Tibet.
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A catalogue of the original paintings, busts, carved figures, &c. &c. &c. now exhibiting, by the Society of Sign-Painters, at the large rooms, the upper end of Bow-Street, Covent-Garden, nearly opposite the play-house passage.
Society of Sign-painters.Date: [1762?]- Pictures
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Four signs of the zodiac: Pisces (the fish), Libra (the scales), Scorpio (the scorpion) and Taurus (the bull). Gouache painting by a Persian artist.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]Reference: 583109i- Pictures
A philosopher in his study, consulted by an old woman to determine from a flask of urine whether the young woman accompanying her is pregnant. Oil painting by Egbert van Heemskerck or a follower of Egbert van Heemskerck, ca. 1680/1799.
Heemskerck, Egbert van, 1634 or 1635-1704.Date: 1680-1799Reference: 576437i- Pictures
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A pharmacy: the pharmacist (a fox) tries to sell medicines to a customer in pain (a duck, accompanied by his wife). Painting by L.H. Choustrac, 1905.
Choustrac, L.H., active 1905.Date: 1905Reference: 577178i- Pictures
The twelve astrological signs of the zodiac. Gouache paintings by an Persian artist, 18--(?).
Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]Reference: 582998i- Pictures
A surgical operation. Oil painting attributed to Egbert van Heemskerck III.
Heemskerck, Egbert, active approximately 1700-1744.Date: [between 1730 and 1739?]Reference: 661865i