An alchemical adept carrying the vase of Hermes, which is inscribed "Let us go to seek the nature of the four elements". Watercolour painting by E.A. Ibbs.

  • Ibbs, Edith A.
Date:
1900-1909
Reference:
38701i
Part of:
Splendor solis
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An alchemical adept carrying the vase of Hermes, which is inscribed "Let us go to seek the nature of the four elements". Watercolour painting by E.A. Ibbs. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced June 2023 : An alchemical adept carrying the vase of Hermes, which is inscribed "Let us go to seek the nature of the four elements". Watercolour painting.

Publication/Creation

1900-1909

Physical description

1 painting : watercolour ; image 40.7 x 24.8 cm.

Reference

Wellcome Collection 38701i

References note

For detailed information on this series, cf. J. van Lennep, L'alchimie, Brussels 1984, pp. 110-129

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

Reproduction note

After: Salomon Trismosin, Splendor solis, 1582, British Library, Harley ms. 3469

Notes

Second in the order of illustrations of the 1532 manuscript
The earliest manuscript of the 'Splendor solis' (Splendour of the Sun) attributed to Salomon Trismosin is dated 1532

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