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Astrologers

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Images from the collections

Images about Astrologers

12 images from works
  • A man of occult learning arrives at the house of a cobbler and his wife: the cobbler insults him, the wife defends him. Coloured engraving by L. Truchy after F. Hayman.
  • M0016600: Portrait of Jack Adams (fl.1660s)
  • In a chamber containing stuffed animals, a globe and astrological devices Hudibras, about to draw his sword, startles Sidrophel and Whacum. Engraving by William Hogarth.
  • A man telling a lady's horoscope. Colour stipple engraving by J.P. Simon, 1786, after J.R. Smith.
  • An astronomer and astrologer in his study, plotting points on a globe with a pair of dividers. Woodcut by J. Amman, 1568.
  • M0014535: Portrait of John Dee (1527-1608)
  • An astrologer telling a lady's fortune. Lithograph by J. Prat after C.C. Renoux.
  • M0006708: Portrait of Thomas Dowland (active 1790)
  • An astrologer. Watercolour by an Indian artist, ca. 1825.
  • A man telling a lady's fortune. Oil painting after J.R. Smith.
  • M0014534: Portrait of John Dee (1527-1608)
  • In a chamber containing stuffed animals, a globe and astrological devices Hudibras, about to draw his sword, startles Sidrophel and Whacum. Engraving by T. Cook, ca. 1808, after W. Hogarth.

Works from the collections

33 works

    • Books

    Medicine and magic in Elizabethan London : Simon Forman - astrologer, alchemist, and physician / Lauren Kassell.

    Kassell, Lauren. | Date: 2005
    • Books

    --und die Spree führt Gold : Leonhard Thurneysser zum Thurn : Astrologe, Alchimist, Arzt und Drucker im Berlin des 16. Jahrhunderts / Gabriele Spitzer.

    Spitzer, Gabriele. | Date: 1996
    • Archives and manuscripts
    • Online

    M0016600: Portrait of Jack Adams (fl.1660s)

    | Date: 1958 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/149/49
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
    • Books
    • Online

    Advertisements In Wine-Office-Court, Fleetstreet, at the sign of the Acorn liveth a gentlewoman, who will (by the blesung [sic] of God upon her endeavors) : resolve to her own sex all manner of lawful questions, so far as reason can require or art warrant[.].

    | Date: [1685?]
    • Pictures

    The dance of death: death takes the astrologer. Coloured aquatint after T. Rowlandson, 1816.

    Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827. | Date: 1816 | Reference: 46999i
    Part of: English dance of death, from the designs of Thomas Rowlandson, with metrical illustrations, by the author of "Dr Syntax".
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