M0006966: A young alchemist working bellows at a furnace

Date:
15 May 1940
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/59/61
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M0006966: A young alchemist working bellows at a furnace. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced May 2020: A young alchemist works a bellows at his furnace. Etching by

Description

Photograph of an etching by Thomas Major, after David Teniers the younger, of a young alchemist working a bellows at his furnace, with lettering in french, c.1755. Another photograph of this image was accessioned by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum on 10th March 1936 (PHO 7601). Related images: V0025546, V0025993.

Publication/Creation

15 May 1940

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the item depicted in the glass plate negative: 36032i. Wellcome Collection holds the accession registers for the item depicted in the glass plate negative:PHO 7601.

Notes

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 2020.

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