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Alchemy: three furnaces with glass vessels on two of them. Watercolour, 1933, by V. Kaliba.

Alchemy: a double furnace with a glass vessel connected to it. Watercolour, 1933, by V. Kaliba.

Surgery: a cupping glass (above) and a pot on top of a fire, with a cautery (?) and a pair of bellows. Watercolour, 1933, by V. Kaliba.

Alchemy: a workshop with furnaces and apparatus, the alchemist in the foreground tying up a leather bag. Watercolour, 1934, by V. Kaliba after K. Stapfer after a 17th century MS.

Alchemy: a furnace with nested vessels inside, and a sketch of another similar furnace. Watercolour, 1933, by V. Kaliba.

Alchemy: a furnace with some parts removed (?) Watercolour, 1933, by V. Kaliba.

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Kaliba, Vzcaslav, active 1933-4.

Images from the collections

Images by Kaliba, Vzcaslav, active 1933-4.

Works from the collections

Alchemy: a furnace with nested vessels inside, and a sketch of another similar furnace. Watercolour, 1933, by V. Kaliba.

Alchemy: three furnaces with glass vessels on two of them. Watercolour, 1933, by V. Kaliba.

Surgery: a cupping glass (above) and a pot on top of a fire, with a cautery (?) and a pair of bellows. Watercolour, 1933, by V. Kaliba.

Alchemy: a workshop with furnaces and apparatus, the alchemist in the foreground tying up a leather bag. Watercolour, 1934, by V. Kaliba after K. Stapfer after a 17th century MS.

Alchemy: a furnace with some parts removed (?) Watercolour, 1933, by V. Kaliba.

Kaliba, Vzcaslav, active 1933-4.

Images from the collections

Images by Kaliba, Vzcaslav, active 1933-4.

Works from the collections

Alchemy: a furnace with nested vessels inside, and a sketch of another similar furnace. Watercolour, 1933, by V. Kaliba.

Alchemy: three furnaces with glass vessels on two of them. Watercolour, 1933, by V. Kaliba.

Surgery: a cupping glass (above) and a pot on top of a fire, with a cautery (?) and a pair of bellows. Watercolour, 1933, by V. Kaliba.

Alchemy: a workshop with furnaces and apparatus, the alchemist in the foreground tying up a leather bag. Watercolour, 1934, by V. Kaliba after K. Stapfer after a 17th century MS.

Alchemy: a furnace with some parts removed (?) Watercolour, 1933, by V. Kaliba.

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