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M0003615: Alchemist at work and Michael Faraday in his chemical laboratory
Date: 18 September 1933Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/29/84
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M0007672: Interior with an alchemist examining a bowl
Date: 27 January 1941Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/66/10
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Two workers in an alchemist's laboratory, surrounded by chemical receptacles and equipment. Engraving, 1669.
Date: 1669Reference: 36200i
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A seething mass of people driven by a multitude of different wills; representing the levelling of life by death. Etching by G.M. Mitelli after himself, 1690.
Mitelli, Giuseppe Maria, 1634-1718.Date: 1690Reference: 17931i
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An alchemist making gold. Oil painting by Hendrik Heerschop, 1665.
Heerschop, Hendrik, 1626 or 1627-1690.Date: 1665Reference: 45114i
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Scene from Sir Walter Scott's "Anne of Geierstein": Hermione takes refuge in the chemical laboratory of Sir Herman, an Austrian alchemist. Oil painting.
Reference: 45105i
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An alchemist hunched over his crucible; an assistant reads him a recipe, watched by an onlooker; the alchemist's wife weeps in the dim background, a baby clasped to her breast. Coloured lithograph by Bouvier, 1830, after J. Steen.
Steen, Jan, 1626-1679.Date: January 1830Reference: 35485i
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An alchemist's laboratory inhabited by monkeys: to the right they are shown calling at the poorhouse, destitute after their obsessive, fruitless experiments. Etching by P. van der Borcht, ca. 1580.
Borcht, Petrus van der, 1545-1608.Reference: 17512i
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An alchemist in his laboratory. Oil painting by a follower of David Teniers the younger.
Teniers, David, 1610-1690.Reference: 45144i
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An alchemist. Oil painting by Eugène Lomont, 1890.
Lomont, Eugène, 1864-1938.Date: 1890Reference: 45145i
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An alchemist with his assistants in his laboratory. Engraving by J.P. Le Bas, 1747, after D. Teniers.
Teniers, David, 1610-1690.Date: [1747]Reference: 35909i
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M0011166: An alchemist in his laboratory
Date: November 1949Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/99/16
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An alchemist's laboratory: a young man drinks an elixir of life while the alchemist is incapacitated. Wood engraving by H.K. Browne (Phiz), 1865.
Browne, Hablot Knight, 1815-1882.Date: [1865]Reference: 37582i
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M0005410: Diorama of a medieval alchemist at work in his laboratory
Date: January 1938Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/44/38
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Interior with an alchemist seated at a table, writing. Oil painting by a follower of Thomas Wijck (Thomas Wyck).
Wyck, Thomas, approximately 1616-1677.Reference: 45097i
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M0007668: An alchemist in his laboratory
Date: 27 January 1941Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/66/6
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Alchemical laboratory notebooks and correspondence / George Starkey ; edited by William R. Newman and Lawrence M. Principe.
Starkey, George, 1627-1665.Date: 2004
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M0010334: Portrait of John Dee (1527-1608)
Date: 18 November 1947Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/91/22
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A group of three 'puffers' (uninitiated alchemists) reading books, and a credulous peasant trying his luck at alchemy, his weeping wife and miserable child trying to detain him from alchemical pursuit. Engraving by F. Godefroy after J. Steen.
Steen, Jan, 1626-1679.Reference: 35486i
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An alchemist at a furnace, holding a flask. Oil painting, ca. 1900 (?).
Date: 1900Reference: 584114i
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An alchemist in his laboratory. Oil painting by James Nasmyth.
Nasmyth, James, 1808-1890.Reference: 45091i
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M0011829: Reproduction of a woodcut of Hermes Trismegistus from Daniel Stolcius' Viridarium chymicum figuris cupro incisis adornatum, et poeticis picturis illustratum, 1624
Date: April 1951Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/105/31
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A savant in his cabinet, surrounded by chemical and other apparatus, examining a flask. Oil painting by Mattheus van Helmont, 167-.
Helmont, Mattheus van, 1623-after 1674.Reference: 45123i
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An alchemist in his laboratory. Oil painting by a follower of David Teniers the younger.
Teniers, David, 1610-1690.Reference: 47412i
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An alchemist using bellows at a furnace in his laboratory. Etching by T. Major, 1750, after D. Teniers the younger.
Teniers, David, 1610-1690.Date: 7 May 1750 :Reference: 35503i

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M0003615: Alchemist at work and Michael Faraday in his chemical laboratory

M0007672: Interior with an alchemist examining a bowl

Two workers in an alchemist's laboratory, surrounded by chemical receptacles and equipment. Engraving, 1669.

A seething mass of people driven by a multitude of different wills; representing the levelling of life by death. Etching by G.M. Mitelli after himself, 1690.

An alchemist making gold. Oil painting by Hendrik Heerschop, 1665.

Scene from Sir Walter Scott's "Anne of Geierstein": Hermione takes refuge in the chemical laboratory of Sir Herman, an Austrian alchemist. Oil painting.

An alchemist hunched over his crucible; an assistant reads him a recipe, watched by an onlooker; the alchemist's wife weeps in the dim background, a baby clasped to her breast. Coloured lithograph by Bouvier, 1830, after J. Steen.

An alchemist's laboratory inhabited by monkeys: to the right they are shown calling at the poorhouse, destitute after their obsessive, fruitless experiments. Etching by P. van der Borcht, ca. 1580.

An alchemist in his laboratory. Oil painting by a follower of David Teniers the younger.

An alchemist. Oil painting by Eugène Lomont, 1890.

An alchemist with his assistants in his laboratory. Engraving by J.P. Le Bas, 1747, after D. Teniers.

M0011166: An alchemist in his laboratory

An alchemist's laboratory: a young man drinks an elixir of life while the alchemist is incapacitated. Wood engraving by H.K. Browne (Phiz), 1865.

M0005410: Diorama of a medieval alchemist at work in his laboratory

Interior with an alchemist seated at a table, writing. Oil painting by a follower of Thomas Wijck (Thomas Wyck).

M0007668: An alchemist in his laboratory

Alchemical laboratory notebooks and correspondence / George Starkey ; edited by William R. Newman and Lawrence M. Principe.

M0010334: Portrait of John Dee (1527-1608)

A group of three 'puffers' (uninitiated alchemists) reading books, and a credulous peasant trying his luck at alchemy, his weeping wife and miserable child trying to detain him from alchemical pursuit. Engraving by F. Godefroy after J. Steen.

An alchemist at a furnace, holding a flask. Oil painting, ca. 1900 (?).

An alchemist in his laboratory. Oil painting by James Nasmyth.

M0011829: Reproduction of a woodcut of Hermes Trismegistus from Daniel Stolcius' Viridarium chymicum figuris cupro incisis adornatum, et poeticis picturis illustratum, 1624

A savant in his cabinet, surrounded by chemical and other apparatus, examining a flask. Oil painting by Mattheus van Helmont, 167-.

An alchemist in his laboratory. Oil painting by a follower of David Teniers the younger.

An alchemist using bellows at a furnace in his laboratory. Etching by T. Major, 1750, after D. Teniers the younger.