M0011876: Reproduction of an illustration of a 15th century alchemist in his laboratory with a balance on the table from John Read's Prelude to chemistry : an outline of alchemy, its literature and relationships, 1936

Date:
1951
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WT/D/1/20/1/105/77
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M0011876: Reproduction of an illustration of a 15th century alchemist in his laboratory with a balance on the table from John Read's Prelude to chemistry : an outline of alchemy, its literature and relationships, 1936. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced May 2022: Alchemist in his laboratory; a balance in a case.

Description

Reproduction of an illustration of a 15th century alchemist in his laboratory with a balance on the table from Read, John (1884-1963): Prelude to chemistry : an outline of alchemy, its literature and relationships London : G. Bell and Sons Ltd., 1936. The original illustration is from Norton, Thomas (c. 1433–1513): The Ordinall of Alchymy, folio 37b, formerly held by the British Museum, now in the British Library (reference: Add MS 10302).

Publication/Creation

1951

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 16.5 x 12 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative.

Notes

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 2022.

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