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The Alchemist
- 1800 – 1899
A man dressed in peasant garb holds a gold scale in right hand and reaches with left for red substance in open paper packet. At left through window are building roofs; the light illuminates a dark, cluttered workshop…
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The Dentist and his Patient
- 1800 – 1899
This small painting on metal is a copy of Gerrit Dou's (also known as Gerrit Douw or Dow) [artist unknown] popular dentist scene in Dresden. Through the illusionistic frame of a large window, we see a dentist in a red…
- After Dou, Gerard, 1613-1675
- Subject Dou, Gerard, 1613-1675, Dentistry, Alchemy, Alchemy in art, Teeth--Extraction
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Alchemist at work (with book resting on skull)
- 1800 – 1899
In this small copy in the style of David Teniers II (artist unknown), an elderly, bearded alchemist closely reads an open book with an expression of absorbed contemplation. He is seated at his desk beside a skull and…
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The School Master
- The Quill Cutter
- 1800 – 1899
In this copy after Gerrit Dou's (also known as Gerrit Douw or Dow) popular "The School Master" composition (artist unknown), the old man at the window niche sharpens his pen while his pupils are busy at work in the…
- After Dou, Gerard, 1613-1675
- Subject Dou, Gerard, 1613-1675, Alchemists, Alchemy, Alchemy in art, Art, Dutch
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An Apothecary Shop
- 1800s
An alchemist takes the pulse of an elegant female patient, inside a cavernous chamber decorated with fine paintings and luxurious furnishings. Above the mantle hangs a painted hunting scene which resembles the work of…
- Attributed To Heemskerck II, Egbert van
- Subject Alchemists, Alchemy, Alchemy in art, Symbolism in art
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The Medical Alchemist
- 1800s
A physician wearing the traditional physician's cap conducts a urinoscopy on the flask he holds. A woman is seated beside him, waiting for the results. In the foreground the alchemist's assistant is tending to a furnace…
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Alchemist with Scale
- 1800s
A bearded alchemist wearing a fur-trimmed top coat and cap is carefully weighing ingredients with a balance. On top of his table is an exotic carpet covered with papers, a copper pitcher, and ceramic jar. Resting on a…
- Artist Weiland, Johannes
- Subject Alchemists, Alchemy, Alchemists in art
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La Femme Hydropique
- The Dropsical Woman
- After 1800 – before 1821
This engraving, by the French printmaker Jean Baptiste Fosseyeux, reproduces an original painting by Gerrit Dou. The work, titled "The Dropsical Woman," shows a young but finely-robed doctor examining the urine of a…
- After Dou, Gerard
- Artist Fosseyeux, Jean Baptiste, Gianni, Felice
- Subject Urine--Analysis, Alchemists, Alchemy, Alchemy in art
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Total immersion mercury thermometer
- 1800s
A: Bulb containing mercury attached to a glass tube of narrow diameter. Thermometer has Celsius scale with 20-30 degree range with major divisions every 1 degree and minor divisions every 0.1 degree.
B: Protective…
- Subject Temperature measurements, Thermometers
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Mercury thermometer
- 1800s
A: Bulb containing mercury attached to a glass tube of narrow diameter. Thermometer has Celsius scale with 0-100 degree range.
B: Protective cardboard tube for the thermometer (not digitized).
Partial immersion…
- Subject Temperature measurements, Thermometers
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Plate 27: Final firework display at the celebration of the marriage of Napoleon and Marie Louise at the residence of Princess Pauline Borghèse, the Palais de Neuilly, on 14 June 1810
- Plate 27. A drawing representing the final firework fired on the occasion of the marriage of Their Majesties the Emperor and the Empress at the home of Her Highness the Princess of Borghèse, at her Neuilly Palace, the 14 June 1810
- Part of Elémens de Pyrotechnie
- 1811
Napoleon Bonaparte married his second wife Marie Louise in a series of ceremonies, first by proxy in Vienna on 10 March 1810, then twice in Paris, a civil ceremony on 1 April and a religious ceremony the following day. …
- Author Ruggieri, Claude-Fortuné
- Creator Of Work Bénard, Pierre
- Subject Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821, Fireworks
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Plate 26
- Part of Elémens de Pyrotechnie
- 1811
- Author Ruggieri, Claude-Fortuné
- Subject Balloons, Military fireworks, Fireworks
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Plate 25
- Part of Elémens de Pyrotechnie
- 1811
- Author Ruggieri, Claude-Fortuné
- Subject Balloons, Military fireworks, Fireworks
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Plate 24
- Part of Elémens de Pyrotechnie
- 1811
- Author Ruggieri, Claude-Fortuné
- Subject Balloons, Military fireworks, Fireworks
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Plate 23
- Part of Elémens de Pyrotechnie
- 1811
- Author Ruggieri, Claude-Fortuné
- Subject Balloons, Military fireworks, Fireworks
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Plate 22
- Part of Elémens de Pyrotechnie
- 1811
- Author Ruggieri, Claude-Fortuné
- Subject Balloons, Military fireworks, Fireworks
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Plate 21
- Part of Elémens de Pyrotechnie
- 1811
- Author Ruggieri, Claude-Fortuné
- Subject Balloons, Military fireworks, Fireworks
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Plate 20
- Part of Elémens de Pyrotechnie
- 1811
- Author Ruggieri, Claude-Fortuné
- Subject Balloons, Military fireworks, Fireworks
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Plate 19
- Part of Elémens de Pyrotechnie
- 1811
- Author Ruggieri, Claude-Fortuné
- Subject Balloons, Military fireworks, Fireworks
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Plate 18
- Part of Elémens de Pyrotechnie
- 1811
- Author Ruggieri, Claude-Fortuné
- Subject Balloons, Military fireworks, Fireworks
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Plate 17
- Part of Elémens de Pyrotechnie
- 1811
- Author Ruggieri, Claude-Fortuné
- Subject Balloons, Military fireworks, Fireworks
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Plate 16
- Part of Elémens de Pyrotechnie
- 1811
- Author Ruggieri, Claude-Fortuné
- Subject Balloons, Military fireworks, Fireworks
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Plate 15
- Part of Elémens de Pyrotechnie
- 1811
- Author Ruggieri, Claude-Fortuné
- Subject Balloons, Military fireworks, Fireworks
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Plate 13
- Part of Elémens de Pyrotechnie
- 1811
- Author Ruggieri, Claude-Fortuné
- Subject Balloons, Military fireworks, Fireworks
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Plate 14
- Part of Elémens de Pyrotechnie
- 1811
- Author Ruggieri, Claude-Fortuné
- Subject Balloons, Military fireworks, Fireworks
