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  • Subtle the alchemist, posing as an astrologer, being visited by Abel Drugger, in Ben Jonson's 'The alchemist'. Engraving by C. Grignion, 1791, after J. Graham.
  • An alchemist in his laboratory. Oil painting by James Nasmyth.
  • A seated man in a monk's habit, blowing bellows, with an alembic. Pencil drawing.
  • An alchemist. Oil painting by E.C. Barnes.
  • A young man blowing a bellows, while an alchemist, chemist or goldsmith watches through spectacles. Engraving by C. Guttenberg after F. van Mieris.
  • An alchemist in his laboratory. Oil painting by a follower of David Teniers the younger.
  • An alchemist. Oil painting after Pieter Bruegel.
  • An alchemist with his family in their dim dwelling, working a bellows at his furnace. Engraving by J.C. Bentley after A. van Ostade, 1661.
  • An alchemist seated at a furnace, turning away in thought. Oil painting after David Teniers II (?).
  • An alchemist with an assistant in his laboratory. Lithograph after D. Teniers the younger, 1650.
  • An alchemist with his assistants in his laboratory. Coloured lithograph by J. Cullum, ca. 1840, after D. Teniers the younger, 1640/1650.
  • An alchemist. Oil painting after Pieter Bruegel.
  • An alchemist in his laboratory with his family: to the right they are shown calling at the poorhouse, destitute after the husband's failed experiments. Engraving after P. Bruegel, ca. 1558.
  • Hennig Brand, the German alchemist, discovering phosphorus. Etching, 19th century.
  • Interior with an alchemist studying a book, his assistant pouring liquid into a bowl. Oil painting by Thomas Wijck (Thomas Wyck).
  • An alchemist in his laboratory. Oil painting by a follower of David Teniers the younger.
  • An alchemist in his laboratory. Oil painting by a follower of David Teniers the younger.
  • An alchemist in his laboratory. Oil painting by a follower of David Teniers the younger.
  • An alchemist in his laboratory. Oil painting by a follower of David Teniers the younger.
  • A young man blowing a bellows, while an alchemist, chemist or goldsmith watches through spectacles. Engraving by C. Guttenberg after F. van Mieris.
  • An alchemist reading a book; his assistants stirring the crucible on the other side of the room. Engraving by P.F. Basan after D. Teniers the younger.
  • An alchemist peering into a glass vessel. Mezzotint by F.R. Say, 1819, after J. Northcote.
  • A young woman, perhaps Prudentia, warns an alchemist of the dangers of abusing fire: in the background fires rage in buildings and mines. Oil painting after Marten de Vos.
  • An alchemist making gold. Oil painting by Hendrik Heerschop, 1665.
  • A savant in his cabinet, surrounded by chemical and other apparatus, examining a flask. Oil painting by Mattheus van Helmont, 167-.
  • A coal porter, an alchemist and a rich man who hopes vainly to profit from alchemy. Etching, 18th century.
  • An alchemist in his laboratory. Oil painting by a follower of David Teniers the younger.
  • Interior with an alchemist. Oil painting by Thomas Wijck (Thomas Wyck).
  • A young alchemist works a bellows at his furnace. Etching by T. Major, 1755, after D. Teniers the younger.
  • An alchemist hunched over his crucible; an assistant reads him a recipe, watched by an onlooker. Mezzotint by J. Wilson, c. 1770, after J. Steen.