An alchemist at his furnace, hunched over bellows. Colour etching by W. Baillie, 1792, after D. Teniers the younger.

1792

1 print : etching, with ink à la poupée ; platemark 18.9 x 22.7 cm

Select images of this work were taken by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: WT/D/1/20/1/42/29

The alchymist. He's in belief of chymistry, so bold,/ If his dream last, he'll turn the world to gold. Teniers pinxt. W. Baillie sculp.

A.A.A.M. Brinkman, De alchemist in de prentkunst, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1982, pp. 25-26

Wellcome Collection 36060i

An adaptation by Baillie of the central part of an engraving by J.P. le Bas, ca. 1747, after a painting by David Teniers the younger (Brinkman, loc. cit.). The print by Le Bas is no. 35909i in the Wellcome Library catalogue