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The interior of a distillery, with a man seated on a chair smoking a pipe; various objects hanging on the wall. Wash drawing, ca. 1830.
Date: 1830Reference: 575677i
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Specification of Arthur Woolf : steam and other boilers.
Woolf, Arthur.Date: 1854
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A still house in a whiskey distillery. Wood engraving, late 19th century.
Reference: 25765i
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Specification of James Rumsey : boilers for steam engines, for distillation, &c.
Rumsey, James, 1743?-1792.Date: 1854
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Three distillers with streams running from their noses and mouths into a tub of "double rectified spirits". Coloured etching, 1811, after T. Rowlandson.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.Date: 10 October 1811Reference: 25768i
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Specification of Mary Howson : tubular boilers.
Howson, Mary.Date: 1854
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Specification of James Tate : furnaces, coppers, &c. for brewing and distilling.
Tate, James.Date: 1854
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The distillery of Deacon Giles seen as the work of the Devil. Coloured wood-engraving after G. B. Cheever, ca. 1835.
Cheever, George B. (George Barrell), 1807-1890.Date: [1835?]Reference: 25753i
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Allegorical and historical scenes of medicine: including a dissection and a distillation laboratory, and Hygieia receiving the organic and mineral bounty of the earth employed in remedies. Engraving by J.F. Fleischberger, 1660.
Date: 1660Reference: 25005i
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Specification of Neil Arnott : furnaces; steam and air engines; distilling, evaporating, and brewing apparatus.
Arnott, Neil, 1788-1874.Date: 1854
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Specification of Richard Willcox : steam-engine furnace or boiler and air pump.
Willcox, Richard.Date: 1854
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Gardens with distillation apparatus.
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Specification of Richard Shannon : apparatus for brewing, distilling, &c.
Shannon, Richard.Date: 1854
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Mémoire sur la meilleure manière de construire les alambics et fourneaux propres a la distillation des vins pour en tirer les eaux-de-vie / Par M. Baumé, du Collège de pharmacie de Paris, de l'Académie royale des sciences & de celle de Madrid ; ouvrage qui a obtenu le prix sur la question relative à cette matière proposée par la Société libre d'emulation.
Baumé, Antoine, 1728-1804.Date: 1778
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A Chinese (?) man working with distilling apparatus. Coloured engraving by A. Freschi, 1812.
Date: 23 May 1812Reference: 25754i
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Patent of John Theophilus Desaguliers, Daniel Niblet, and William Vreem : heating by steam for various manufacturing purposes.
Desaguliers, J. T. (John Theophilus), 1683-1744.Date: 1857
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An elderly anatomist contemplates the heart that he has excised from the corpse of a beautiful, young woman. Photogravure by R. Schuster, 1906, after a painting by E. Simonet, 1890.
Simonet y Lombardo, Enrique, 1864-1927.Date: 1906Reference: 25615i
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De distillatione lib. IX. Quibus certa methodo, multiplicíque artificio, penitioribus naturae arcanis detectis, cuiuslibet mixti in propria elementa resolutio, perfecte docetur / Io Bap. Portae.
Porta, Giambattista della, approximately 1535-1615.Date: 1608
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An evil magician raises demons from a distillery tub as onlookers fall back amazed. Coloured aquatint, c. 1808, after S. De Wilde.
De Wilde, Samuel, 1751-1832.Date: 1 July 1808Reference: 25763i
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An elderly anatomist contemplates the heart that he has excised from the corpse of a beautiful, young woman. Photogravure by R. Schuster, 1907, after a painting by E. Simonet, 1890.
Simonet y Lombardo, Enrique, 1864-1927.Date: 1906Reference: 25919i
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Three Wallachian men round a log fire with distilling apparatus nearby. Wood engraving, ca. 1870.
Date: 1870-1879Reference: 25755i
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A physician, a woman patient and an alchemist (?). Oil painting attributed to Jan Josef Horemans I.
Horemans, Jan Josef, 1682-1759.Date: [between 1720 and 1729?]Reference: 44719i
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A scholar in a surgeon's workroom with a jar of spirits containing Saint Michael defeating a dragon with a barbued tonge; representing the scholar's knowledge of chemistry enabling surgeons to heal, by setting the beneficent force of alkalis against the noxious force of acids. Etching by P.P. Bouche, ca. 1686.
Muys, Jan, 1656-after 1699.Date: 1686Reference: 26003i
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Richard Burdon Haldane as an alchemist using bellows, representing his eloquence, to distil a new military unit from three older units. Pen drawing by A.S. Boyd, 1907.
Boyd, A. S. (Alexander Stuart), 1854-1930.Date: 1907Reference: 15795i
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A drunken man and woman lean against pillars leading to a giant distillery with attendant demon; miscellaneous characters round as border. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1833, after himself.
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.Date: 1833Reference: 26475i