An alchemical adept carrying the vase of Hermes, which is inscribed "Let us go to seek the nature of the four elements". Watercolour painting by E.A. Ibbs.

Previous title, replaced June 2023 : An alchemical adept carrying the vase of Hermes, which is inscribed "Let us go to seek the nature of the four elements". Watercolour painting.

1900-1909

1 painting : watercolour ; image 40.7 x 24.8 cm.

Wellcome Collection 38701i

For detailed information on this series, cf. J. van Lennep, L'alchimie, Brussels 1984, pp. 110-129

Painted by Edith Annie Ibbs (1863-1937) on commission from the secretary of the Historical Medical Exhibition organized by Henry S. Wellcome (C.J.S. Thompson), ca. 1907, and subsequently exhibited in the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London

After: Salomon Trismosin, Splendor solis, 1582, British Library, Harley ms. 3469

Second in the order of illustrations of the 1532 manuscript

The earliest manuscript of the 'Splendor solis' (Splendour of the Sun) attributed to Salomon Trismosin is dated 1532