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An alchemist concentrates on a book in his study, while Death next to him tells him "My dear Herr Collaborator, you are are too hardworking". Gouache painting.
Reference: 37886i
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Two workers in an alchemist's laboratory, surrounded by chemical receptacles and equipment. Engraving, 1669.
Date: 1669Reference: 36200i
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A young alchemist works a bellows at his furnace. Etching by T. Major, c. 1755, after D. Teniers the younger.
David Teniers the YoungerDate: 1755Reference: 36032i
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Christ, with a sword in his mouth, between seven candlesticks; representing a stage in the alchemical process. Coloured etching after etching, 1772/3.
Date: 1772Reference: 38209i
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The magi sheltering in a cave on the way to Bethlehem; here representing mercury converted into sulphur, at the moment of its fixation in the alchemical process. Coloured etching after etching, 17th century.
Reference: 38211i
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Two children wait nervously while an alchemist secretively concocts a mixture at his stove. Pen and wash drawing by G. Robinson.
Robinson, Gordon, 1911-1994.Reference: 37927i
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A young alchemist works a bellows at his furnace. Etching by T. Major, 1755, after D. Teniers the younger.
David Teniers the YoungerDate: 7 July 1755Reference: 36024i
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Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: alembic flasks and other apparatus in a sixteenth-century alchemist's laboratory. Photograph.
Reference: 28849i
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A room of Quakers gossiping about the marriage of William Allen to Mrs. Grizell Birkbeck, seen on the left, affirming their vows. Coloured etching by R.I. Cruikshank, 1827.
Isaac Robert CruikshankDate: 1827Reference: 37370i
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Abel Drugger, from Ben Jonson's 'The alchemist', in a posture of combat. Engraving by J. Thornthwaite, 1777, after Roberts.
Roberts, fl. 18th century.Date: 1791Reference: 36891i
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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: 38825i
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Three men ride through the sky on black, red and white lions (colours of the alchemical process); beneath, men lay sprawled among dismembered limbs. Coloured etching after etching, ca. 17th century.
Reference: 38213i
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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: 38826i
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A moon above a queen dressed in blue, and a sun above a king dressed in red; representing two alchemical principles: the dissolving 'lac virginis' (mercury) and the coagulating masculine principle (sulphur). Watercolour painting by E.A. Ibbs.
Ibbs, Edith A.Date: 1900-1909Reference: 38703i
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Roger Bacon conducting an alchemical experiment in a vaulted cloister. Etching by J. Nasmyth, 1845.
James NasmythDate: 1845Reference: 37839i
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Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: reconstruction of a sixteenth-century alchemist's laboratory. Photograph.
Reference: 28859i
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An alchemist's laboratory: a young man drinks an elixir of life while the alchemist is incapacitated. Wood engraving by H.K. Browne (Phiz), 1865.
Hablot Knight BrowneDate: [1865]Reference: 37582i
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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: 38820i
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Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: reconstruction of a sixteenth-century alchemist's laboratory. Photograph.
Reference: 28861i
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An alchemist in his laboratory with his family: to the right they are shown calling at the poorhouse, destitute after the husband's failed experiments. Engraving after P. Bruegel, ca. 1558.
Pieter Brueghel the ElderDate: [1558?]Reference: 35278i
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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.
Thomas RowlandsonDate: [1786?]Reference: 2477063i
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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: 38823i
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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: 38827i
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The Hermetic androgyne; representing the stages of the alchemical Work in One. Watercolour painting by E.A. Ibbs.
Ibbs, Edith A.Date: 1900-1909Reference: 38739i
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The pregnant Virgin Mary, with a dragon at her feet; representing a stage in the alchemical process. Colour painting after etching, 1772/3.
Date: 1772Reference: 38503i