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Alchemy: a furnace with some parts removed (?) Watercolour, 1933, by V. Kaliba.
Kaliba, Vzcaslav, active 1933-4.Date: 1933Reference: 498477i- Pictures
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Alchemy: three furnaces with glass vessels on two of them. Watercolour, 1933, by V. Kaliba.
Kaliba, Vzcaslav, active 1933-4.Date: 1933Reference: 498474i- Pictures
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Alchemy: a double furnace with a glass vessel connected to it. Watercolour, 1933, by V. Kaliba.
Kaliba, Vzcaslav, active 1933-4.Date: 1933Reference: 498476i- Pictures
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Alchemy: a furnace with nested vessels inside, and a sketch of another similar furnace. Watercolour, 1933, by V. Kaliba.
Kaliba, Vzcaslav, active 1933-4.Date: 1933Reference: 498475i- Pictures
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Alchemy: a workshop with furnaces and apparatus, the alchemist in the foreground tying up a leather bag. Watercolour, 1934, by V. Kaliba after K. Stapfer after a 17th century MS.
Kaliba, Vzcaslav, active 1933-4.Date: 1934Reference: 500852i- Pictures
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A man and a woman demonstrating the process of fermentation and distillation in alchemy. Etching, ca. 17th century.
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A man and a woman demonstrating the process of fermentation and distillation in alchemy. Etching, ca. 17th century.
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Three-tiered symbolic diagram of the art of alchemy: top level, symbols of the states of matter; middle level, cabalistic diagrams; lower level, the two techniques of alchemy: distillation and calcination. Engraving by R. Custos, 1616.
Date: 1616Reference: 35413i- Pictures
A coal porter, an alchemist and a rich man who hopes vainly to profit from alchemy. Etching, 18th century.
Reference: 36431iPart of: Il Callotto resuscitato- Pictures
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A black sun with a face descends behind the horizon of a marshy landscape; representing the state of putrefaction in alchemy. Watercolour painting by E.A. Ibbs.
Ibbs, Edith A.Reference: 39761iPart of: Splendor solis- Pictures
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Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: alchemy and chemistry section of first floor galleries. Photograph, 1924.
Date: 1924Reference: 28828i- Pictures
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An monkey-alchemist pumps a bellows in a laboratory; alluding to the vanity of alchemy. Engraving by J.P. Le Bas after D. Teniers II.
Teniers, David, 1610-1690.Reference: 17779i- Pictures
A monkey-alchemist pumps a bellows in a laboratory; alluding to the vanity of alchemy. Process print after J.P. Le Bas after D. Teniers the younger.
Teniers, David, 1610-1690.Reference: 36072i- Pictures
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Emblem representing the path to the philosopher's stone in alchemy. Etching by Defehrt, 1768, after L.-J. Goussier, after the frontispiece to a 17th century book by Libavius.
Goussier, Louis-Jacques, 1722-1799.Date: [1768]Reference: 37240i- Pictures
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Two alchemists seeming to produce gold from a furnace; the accompanying text satirises those who pursue alchemy for gold alone. Engraving by C. Weigel, 1698.
Date: 1698Reference: 37221i- Pictures
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Two peasants hold a red robe; cherubs blow wind and Mercury rests on water below; representing a stage in the process of alchemy. Coloured etching, ca. 18th century.
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Bertha is prevented by her patron from meeting a student of alchemy. Steel engraving by F. Bacon after H.P. Briggs.
Briggs, Henry Perronet, 1792-1844.Date: [1833]Reference: 2491291i- Pictures
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A crowned woman in red holding a rose-topped caduceus; she is suspended in a circle of water; a cherub blows wind from above; representing a stage in the process of alchemy. Coloured etching, ca. 18th century.
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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.
Steen, Jan, 1626-1679.Reference: 35486i- Pictures
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A red-faced king stands in a red robe, flanked by a queen and the deity Mercury in green clothes; representing a stage in the process of alchemy. Coloured etching, ca. 18th century.
Reference: 38627i- Pictures
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A human body is consumed by a furnace; a woman holds a small red limbless effigy bearing a crown; a man holds a sheaf, and another a stick; below, by another furnace, a green and red dragon face each other, poised for combat; representing a stage in the process of alchemy. Coloured etching, ca. 18th century.
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A queen in red is presented with dishes of blood on a hill; below, a man in a white robe gesticulates to the heavens; while another man stands next to alchemical apparatus, facing a man who is lying sick in bed; representing a stage in the process of alchemy. Coloured etching, ca. 18th century.
Reference: 38630i- Pictures
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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.
Corbould, Richard, 1757-1831.Date: 27 July 1805Reference: 37371i- Pictures
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A man conducts an alchemical experiment with an alembic, in the foreground, in the background a female figure representing the world observes a man of the new school of chemistry who prepares an oxygen experiment with a glass jar and a candle: a representation of the historical transition between alchemy and chemistry. Coloured stipple engraving by J. Chapman, 1805, after R. Corbould.
Corbould, Richard, 1757-1831.Date: 27 July 1805Reference: 25676i- Pictures
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A lady visiting an alchemist in his laboratory. Oil painting attributed to Jan Josef Horemans, 17--.
Date: 1700-1799Reference: 45108i