An alchemist at his furnace, hunched over bellows. Coloured mezzotint by H. Dawe after D. Teniers the younger.

  • Teniers, David, 1610-1690.
Date:
Aug.t 1834
Reference:
36056i
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The round cucurbite with the moorshead helmet stands on an open fire on top of the stove

Publication/Creation

[London] (Bartholomew Place, Kentish Town) : Pub.d ...by H. Dawe ; [London] (Strand) : Ackermann & Co. ; [London] : C. Tilt (Fleet Street), Aug.t 1834.

Physical description

1 print : mezzotint, with watercolour and gum arabic

Lettering

The alchymist. Teniers pinx.t ; H. Dawe sculp.t

Creator/production credits

Mezzotint by Henry Dawe, 1834, after an etching by William Baillie, 1792 (?), after an engraving by J.P. Le Bas, 1747, after a painting by David Teniers the younger

Reference

Wellcome Collection 36056i

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