A queen dressed in blue, representing mercury, in a crowned alchemical flask. Watercolour painting by E.A. Ibbs.
- Ibbs, Edith A.
- Date:
- 1900-1909
- Reference:
- 38826i
- Part of:
- Splendor solis
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Previous title, replaced June 2023 : A queen dressed in blue, representing mercury, in a crowned alchemical flask. Watercolour painting.
Description
The queen is aureoled by a rainbow of yellow and blue. Lennep comments that the original manuscript includes an inscription: "Filius natus ex me, major est me" (the son born of me is greater than me). Compare with the following drawing ( Wellcome Library catalogue no. 38827i), of the new king
Publication/Creation
1900-1909
Physical description
1 painting : watercolour ; image 42.3 x 22.1 cm.
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Creator/production credits
Painted by Edith Annie Ibbs (1863-1937) on commission from the secretary of the Historical Medical Exhibition organized by Henry S. Wellcome (C.J.S. Thompson), ca. 1907, and subsequently exhibited in the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London
References note
For detailed information on this series, cf. J. van Lennep, L'alchimie, Brussels 1984, pp. 110-129
This image is one of a sub-series in the 'Splendor solis', showing crowned alchemical flasks containing symbols of the various stages of the Great Work. In the original manuscript, scenes of symbolically relevant activities in village life are shown outside the image, along with an astronomical sign at the top
Reference
Wellcome Collection 38826i
Reproduction note
After: Salomon Trismosin, Splendor solis, 1582, British Library, Harley ms. 3469
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