M0007050: Illustration of alchemical flask containing kneeling figure

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Alchemical drawing. Flask containing kneeling figure.

Photograph of a 14th century manuscript page showing a drawing of an alchemical flask containing a kneeling figure. This reproduction was made from a manuscript held at Dresden. Another photograph of this image was accessioned by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum (PHO 3767).

30 July 1940

1 photograph sheet film negative; 16.3 x 11.8 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register for another photograph of the same image:PHO 3767.

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.

This item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.