Alchemy Collection

Hermes Trismegistus
The messenger of the gods, but here as HERMES TRISMEGISTUS (= thrice-greatest), perceived by Neoplatonists as the presiding deity of alchemy, possessing magical and oracular powers

Sir Isaac Newton, English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, theologian and occultist

Hermes Trismegistus
HERMES TRISMEGISTUS (= thrice- greatest), perceived by Neoplatonists as the presiding deity of alchemy, possessing magical and oracular powers

Sir Isaac Newton, English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, theologian and occultist

Alchemist at work
Black and white print of the painting, " L Alchimiste" by David Teniers the Younger, dated 1790. HPF/5C/4"

THE GREAT ART
The Great Art as supposedly depicted by Basil Valentine, though little is known about this legendary German practitioner of alchemy

Mutus Liber - 2
MUTUS LIBER ( The Silent Book ) The philosophers egg - symbol of wholeness 2 of 15

Mutus Liber - 1
MUTUS LIBER ( The Silent Book ) frontispiece 1 of 15

Mutus Liber - 8
MUTUS LIBER ( The Silent Book ) The Philosophers Mercury 8 of 15

Alchemists Laboratory
An alchemist studies an old instruction manual, while his assistant keeps the furnace going. His workshop is filled with state-of-the-art equipment for The Great Work

Mutus Liber - 3
MUTUS LIBER ( The Silent Book ) The Mystic Fish 3 of 15

Obsessed Alchemist
An alchemist, obsessed with his quest, works at his furnace while friends and neighbours drink and enjoy themselves

The Alchemist Date: early 19th century

Melancholia
This etching shows a glum looking winged figure, a personification of melancholia, surrounded by a number of objects symbolising carpentry, alchemy, geometry and numerology. Date: circa 1514

Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales -- Canons Yeomans Tale
Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales -- The Canons Yeomans Tale, a two-part story about alchemists. Showing the Canon announcing his secret to the Priest, the Canon stirring the crucible

Woulfes apparatus for washing gases or saturating liquids. Peter Woulfe (1727-1803) was an Irish chemist, mineralogist and alchemist

Various types of chemical stills
Alembic still with cucurbit flask and stil-head, alcohol still, and subliming aludel or Hermetic vase. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry from Abraham Rees Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of

A German Chemist (or Alchemist!) and his assistants busy in a chemical laboratory. Date: 17th century

Hermes Trismegistus
HERMES TRISMEGISTUS (= thrice- greatest), perceived by Neoplatonists as the presiding deity of alchemy, possessing magical and oracular powers

German Chemist (or Alchemist!) and his assistants
A German Chemist (or Alchemist!) and his assistants busy in a chemical laboratory. Date: circa 1600

Mutus Liber - 4
MUTUS LIBER ( The Silent Book ) The Dew of Heaven 4 of 15

Paracelsus (1493-1541)
Paracelsus (Theophrastus Philippus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim) (1493-1541). Swiss physician, botanist, alchemist, astrologer, and general occultist. Engraving

Taoism. Last phase of alchemical meditation. Chinese art. Engraving. FRANCE. Ό E-DE-FRANCE. Paris. National Library

CAGLIOSTRO, Giuseppe Balsamo, Count of (1743-1795). Italian traveller, occultist and Mason. Litography

Hermetic Arcana
The Grand Hermetic Arcana, according to the German alchemist Basil Valentine

Althotas (18th Century)
ALTHOTAS alchemist and occultist, supposed teacher and companion of Cagliostro, who may very well never have existed

London Trade Card - Richard Siddall, Chemist at the Golden Head in Panton Street near the Haymarket. 18th century

Illustration, More Than He Expected -- an old man seeking the elixir of life is shocked to see a sudden outpouring of babies. circa 1910

Flemish Alchemist 17C
An alchemist at work, while his wife gets on with the housework Date: mid-17th century

STRADANO, Giovanni (1523-1605). The Laboratory of Alchemy. ca. 1570. Lower right detail. Wolrk located at the Francis Is chamber.. Renaissance art. Cinquecento. Painting. ITALY. TUSCANY. Florence

Zlata Ulicka (Golden Lane), Prague, Czech Republic
Zlata Ulicka (Golden Lane), in the Hradcany area below the castle in Prague, now in the Czech Republic. The name refers to the fact that alchemists used to practise their trade here

The Three Symbolic Animals of Alchemy. Islamic art. Miniature Painting. FRANCE. Paris. National Library

Retorts and stills. Drawing from a Greek manuscript of alchemy. Drawing. FRANCE. Paris. National Library

Thurneyssers Lab
The workshop of the Swiss alchemist Leonhard Thurneysser is visited by the archduke Johann Georg Date: circa 1590

Kenilworth - Alasco
It is false, thou foul- mouthed railer!. The Astrologer and alchemist Alasco hits back at accusations made at him by Varney

Hungary Huniades
(or Hunyades) The castle of Joannes Huniades, Hungarian national hero who also dabbled in alchemy

Mutus Liber - 6
MUTUS LIBER ( The Silent Book ) Adding and Distilling the Ingredients 6 of 15

Roger Bacon / Bayard
ROGER BACON Scientist and scholar Date: 1214 - 1294

Alchemy - Lunary
The mysterious herb LUNARY grows on a mountains brim, exposed to sun by day, moon by night, thus acquiring great power : an essential item in every alchemists laboratory

Alchemy / Lenormand 4
An alchemist distils from lumps of a black substance, depicted on a fortune tellers card

Alchemy / Lenormand 3
An alchemist adds a mysterious dark liquid to his brew, depicted on a fortune-tellers card

Lenormand - Alchemist
An alchemist grows a mysterious and doubtless magical plant, depicted on a fortune-tellers card

Italian Fortune Card
GRAND JEU DE MLLE. DE LENORMAND The Alchemist. An Italian fortune-telling card

Alchemists Workplace
An alchemist anxiously watches the progress of his work, while all around him are the tools and the raw materials of his mysterious and indeed sinister calling

Alchemy / Van Helmont
Alchemist Van Helmont (1577- 1644) is visited by a stranger who generously presents him with the Philosophers Stone which turns base metals into gold

Sibly Frontispiece
Symbolic frontispiece to Siblys book

Classic Alchemist
The archetypal alchemist - more magician than scientist with his black cat and crow, ancient volumes and wile-eyed dedication

C16 Alchemists
An alchemist and his assistant heat the substances whose essence will collect in the flasks at the top of the apparatus, shedding impurities as they rise up the column

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