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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.

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.

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

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

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[.].

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

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Astrologers

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

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

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

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[.].

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

Astrologers

Images from the collections

Images referencing Astrologers

Works from the collections

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

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

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

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[.].

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

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