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  • An elderly alchemist sitting next to his equipment. Engraving by C. Weigel, 1698.
  • An alchemist stoking a furnace in a dimly lit room, as daylight shines through a window. Engraving by P-F. Basan after T. Wyck.
  • An alchemist in his laboratory. Oil painting after D. Teniers II.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: reconstruction of a sixteenth-century alchemist's laboratory. Photograph.
  • An alchemist in his laboratory. Oil painting by or after Thomas Wijck (Thomas Wyck).
  • 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 or chemist examining a liquid. Oil painting attributed to Charles-Emile François, 1841.
  • An alchemist applying bellows to a furnace. Oil painting by a follower (?) of François-Marius Granet.
  • An alchemist in his untidy laboratory. Etching by L. Le Grand after T. Wyck.
  • An alchemist. Oil painting by Eugène Lomont, 1890.
  • The powers of Europe as alchemists who dissolve the alliance of German princes with Napoleon. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1813.
  • An alchemist seated at a furnace, turning away in thought. Oil painting by or after David Teniers II (?).
  • An alchemist in his laboratory. Oil painting by a follower of David Teniers the younger.
  • 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 in his laboratory. Oil painting by a follower of David Teniers II.
  • An alchemist with his assistants in his laboratory. Engraving by F.B. Lorieux and P. Michon after D. Teniers the younger, 1640/1650.
  • A savant in his cabine, 17th century.
  • An alchemist working with his assistants at a crucible. Etching by F. Pedro after F. Maggiotto.
  • An alchemist peering into a glass vessel. Mezzotint by F.R. Say, 1819, after J. Northcote.
  • 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.
  • A hooded alchemist at a furnace; above him hang dead animals: caricature. Watercolour painting.
  • A savant in his cabinet, surrounded by chemical and other apparatus, examining a flask. Oil painting by Mattheus van Helmont, 167-.
  • A dwarfish alchemist, caricatured because of the vanity of his obsession. Line engraving, c. 1720.
  • Interior with an alchemist seated at a table, writing. Oil painting by a follower of Thomas Wijck (Thomas Wyck).
  • A young woman, perhaps Prudentia, warns an alchemist of the dangers of abusing fire: in the background fires rage in buildings and mines. Engraving by C. de Passe after M. de Vos, 16th century.
  • An alchemist. Oil painting after Jan Havicksz. Steen.
  • A monkey alchemist. Oil painting by E. Bristow.
  • An alchemist applying bellows to a furnace. Oil painting by a follower (?) of François-Marius Granet.
  • A young woman, perhaps Prudentia, warns an alchemist of the dangers of abusing fire: in the background fires rage in buildings and mines. Engraving by C. de Passe after M. de Vos, 16th century.
  • An alchemist in his laboratory. Oil painting by a follower of David Teniers II.