Johann Popp. Line engraving by P. Isselburg.

Date:
1627
Reference:
7918i
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He holds a flower of which the petals are marked with alchemical symbols. In the upper left and right corners are plants, and in the lower corners are chemical vessels

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1627

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1 print : engraving

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Johannes Popp, chymicus, aetat. suae L. a.o Chr. MDCXXVII. Ex hujus cerebro mel distillat; cui tale / Est mentum: mentem sculpere nemo valet. / Huic labor adsiduus, dum plurima quaerit, & edit / Id sat verborum, res ubi testis erit.

References note

R. Burgess, Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute, London 1973, no. 2359.1

Reference

Wellcome Collection 7918i

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