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An Alchemist's Workshop with Children Playing
- 1670 – 1702
The alchemist's wife looks on in dismay as the alchemist himself makes a demonstration before the furnace. Behind the couple, an assistant stokes the flames with a large bellows. At left, the alchemist's children play…
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Eugene Jules Houdry Collection
This collection of research material was compiled by G. Alex Mills and consists primarily of reproductions of items related to Eugene J. Houdry's life such as images, newspapers, articles, and lectures. Two unique and…
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Ion source and Model 203-GGA Magnetic Electron Multiplier
- 1958
General view of an ion source and Model 203-GGA Magnetic Electron Multiplier designed for use with the Bendix Corporation Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer. One of four component parts of a mass spectrometer, the ion…
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Ion source and Model 201 Magnetic Electron Multiplier
- 1957
General view of an ion source and Model 201 Magnetic Electron Multiplier designed for use with the Bendix Corporation Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer. One of four component parts of a mass spectrometer, the ion source…
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Frontispiece: Portrait of Vincent Lunardi
- 1784
Frontispiece portrait of Vincent Lunardi, the author of An Account of the First Aërial Voyage in England.
- Artist Cosway, Richard, 1740-1821
- Author Lunardi, Vincent, 1759-1806
- Engraver Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727-1815
- Publisher Bell, John, 1745-1831
- Subject Balloonists, Frontispiece, Lunardi, Vincent, 1759-1806
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Bendix Model MB-105-G2 Magnetic Electron Multiplier
- 1958
General view of a Bendix Model MB-105-G2 Magnetic Electron Multiplier designed for use with the Bendix Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer. A component of a mass spectrometer's ion source, the magnetic electron multiplier…
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The Practical Dyer's Guide
- A Treatise on the Art of Padding
- 1849
"Comprising practical instructions in the dyeing of shot cobourgs, silk striped orleans, colored orleans from black warps, ditto from white warps, colored cobourgs from white warps, merinos, yarns, woollen cloths, &c.;…
- Author Smith, David, active 1850-1886
- Publisher Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.
- Subject Color in the textile industries, Dyes and dyeing
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The Alchemist
- 1600s
This scene depicts tools and materials used both in alchemy and in art—most notably the large écorché figure placed on the alchemist's table, which was used by artists and students of human anatomy. A human skull,…
- Artist Helmont, Mattheus van
- Subject Urine--Analysis, Alchemists, Metal-work, Alchemy, Alchemy in art
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The Alchemist
- 1884
In a stone chamber, an alchemist holds aloft a small vial to examine it against a beam of light from above. Plainly dressed in a brown robe, he stands before a table stacked with glassware, scales, and an open book. On…
- Artist O'Neill, Charles, 1821-1893
- Subject Alchemists, Alchemy, Alchemy in art, O'Neill, Charles, 1821-1893
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An Apothecary
- Circa 1725 – 1767
An alchemist smokes a small clay pipe as he works, stirring a substance in an earthenware jar. His assistant kneels beside the hearth at right, tending the coals of a fire beneath a distillation apparatus. Copper…
- Artist Juncker, Justus, 1703-1767
- Subject Alchemists, Alchemy, Alchemy in art
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An Alchemist's Workshop
- Circa 1725 – 1767
A bald-headed alchemist peers through his spectacles at the heated crucible which his assistant holds up. A second crucible and a larger experiment sit on the fire at left. On the floor sits a hand-bellows, as well as…
- Artist Juncker, Justus, 1703-1767
- Subject Alchemists, Alchemy, Alchemy in art, Juncker, Justus, 1703-1767
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Alchemist seated in his laboratory
- Circa 1887 – circa 1963
The alchemist sits, stirring the contents of a crucible, as he carefully watches the progress of a distillation experiment. He is surrounded by alchemical apparatus, glassware, and open books. An hourglass at his side…
- Artist Reich, Adolf, 1887-1963
- Subject Alchemists, Reich, Adolf, 1887-1963, Alchemy in art, Alchemy
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John Dee
- 1827
This portrait of the famed alchemist John Dee (1527-1609) shows a bearded, elderly man attired in the fashion of the Elizabethan court, complete with a sober scholar's cap and a starched collar ruff. It closely…
- Publisher Hunt and Clarke
- Subject Alchemists, Dee, John, 1527-1608, Portraits
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Ambrose Godfrey Hanckwitz
- 1718
This engraving shows the bust of Ambrose Godfrey-Hanckwitz (1660–1741), an apothecary from Germany who later came to England to assist Sir Robert Boyle; here he is surrounded by his apparatus. At the left are the…
- After Schmutz, Johann Rudolf, 1670-1715
- Engraver Vertue, George, 1684-1756
- Subject Godfrey, Ambrose, -1741, Alchemy
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Malmantile Racquistato
- The Reconquered Malmantile
- 1731
This image appeared as the frontispiece to Lorenzo Lippi's posthumously published comic-heroic poem, "Il Malmantile Racquistato." The work was first released in 1676 under the pseudonym "Perlone Zipoli," an anagram of…
- After Lippi, Lorenzo, 1606-1665
- Engraver Zuccarelli, Francesco, 1702-1788
- Subject Literature in art, Medicine and art, Theater in art, Poetry
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La Consultation Appréhendée
- Circa 1760 – 1786
This print, engraved by Jean Jacques Le Veau after a painting by Marie-Marc-Antoine Bilcoq, shows a bearded alchemist examining a flask in the warm light of an unseen window. In a humble chamber behind a wooden…
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The Chymist [Chemist]
- 1750
This print, engraved by Thomas Major and dedicated to his patron, the royal physician Richard Mead, reproduces a painting by David Teniers II. This copy of the print has been hand-colored. An elderly, finely-dressed…
- After Teniers, David, 1610-1690
- Engraver Major, Thomas, 1720-1799
- Subject Alchemists, Alchemy, Alchemy in art
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The Dutch Chymist [Chemist]
- Circa 1719 – 1804
This engraving, by John Boydell, reproduces a lively scene of alchemists at work, after the painting "The Village Alchemist" by Jan Steen (early 1660s) in the Wallace Collection in London. Two men crowd around a third,…
- After Steen, Jan, 1626-1679
- Engraver Boydell, John, 1720-1804
- Subject Alchemists, Alchemy, Alchemy in art
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L'Alchymiste en Méditation
- The Alchemist in Meditation
- Circa 1777 – 1864
An alchemist in scholar's clothes sits in contemplation at his desk, bent over an open text with quill in hand. His workroom is cluttered with texts and earthenware vessels, a large globe, trunks and barrels. At right,…
- After Wyck, Thomas, approximately 1616-1677
- Artist Gianni
- Engraver Texier, André Louis Victor, 1777-1864
- Subject Alchemists, Alchemy, Alchemy in art
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Le Souffleur
- The Puffer
- 1744
This engraving by François Bernard Lépicié reproduces the painting by Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin. A young man in a fur-trimmed cap and robe sits reading, surrounded by books and glassware. On the shelf above sit…
- After Chardin, Jean Baptiste Siméon, 1699-1779
- Engraver Lépicié, François Bernard, 1698-1755
- Subject Alchemists, Alchemy, Alchemy in art
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L'Instant Critique
- The Critical Moment
- Circa 1723 – 1797
This print reproduces a scene originally painted by David Teniers, in a strongly tenebrist manner, showing the alchemist in a shadowed room beneath the light of a single window. Engaged in reading, the alchemist may be…
- After Teniers, David, 1610-1690
- Engraver Basan, François, 1723-1797
- Subject Alchemists, Alchemy, Alchemy in art
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Argenti excoctio
- Schmelts-und Lauferung des Silbers
- Circa 1700 – 1781
Men feed wood into furnaces and stoke flames in this spacious laboratory, populated with large masonry furnaces for the smelting and working of metals. This scene also contains a list of alchemical elements in Latin.…
- Engraver Lichtensteger, Georg, 1700-1781
- Subject Metals--Hot working, Alchemy, Silverwork, Smelting
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Alchemist in his laboratory
- Circa 1660 – 1704
An alchemist in a calf-length robe holds up a book in one hand, reading with close attention as he stirs a substance in a small crucible. The tabletop beside him is littered with glassware and distillation vessels. In a…
- Artist Dusart, Cornelis, 1660-1704
- Subject Alchemists, Alchemy, Alchemy in art