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Concept

Astrologers

Images

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • M0006708: Portrait of Thomas Dowland (active 1790)
  • 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.
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Catalogue

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

    Kassell, Lauren. | Date: 2005
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    --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
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    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?]
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    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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    An astronomer and astrologer in his study, plotting points on a globe with a pair of dividers. Woodcut by J. Amman, 1568.

    Amman, Jost, 1539-1591. | Date: [1568] | Reference: 46320i
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