M0010605: Large, green dragon, from an alchemical scroll: "Rotulum hieroglyphicum G. Riplaei Equitis Aurati"

Fourth of five panels in an alchemical scroll. It is a copy of a copy made in 1588, of the "Emblematicall scrowle: supposed to be invented by Geo. Ripley" as it is described by Elias Ashmole in his Theatrum chemicum Britannicum, London 1652, p.375. Related images: M0010601, M0010602, M0010603, M0010604, M0010606

12 May 1948

1 photograph glass plate negative; 16.5 x 21.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the item depicted in the glass plate negative: MS.692

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2021.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.