M0012397: Illustration of the 'Fourth Key of Basil Valentine'

Previous title, replaced March 2022: The Fourth Key of Basil Valentine.

Photograph of a woodcut representing the journey to the creation of the Philosophers Stone, the fourth key reproduced from the Twelve Keys of Basil Valentine by Johann Thölde. This reproduction was made from Maier, Michael: Atalanta fvgiens, hoc est emblemata nova de secretis naturae chymica..., Oppenheimii : Ex typographia Hieronymi Galleri, sumptibus Joh. Theodori de Bry, 1618. Related images: M0012394, M0012395, M0012396, M0012389, M0012398, M0012399, M0012400, M0012401, M0012402, M0012403, M0012404, M0012405, M0012406

March 1952

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds copies of the publication from which the image depicted in the glass plate negative has been reproduced.

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.