A young alchemist works a bellows at his furnace. Etching by T. Major, c. 1755, after D. Teniers the younger.

  • David Teniers the Younger
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1755
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36032i
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A young alchemist works a bellows at his furnace. Etching by T. Major, c. 1755, after D. Teniers the younger. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

A fish dangles from the ceiling, and an owl is perched on the upper window shutter

Publication/Creation

Paris : chez Sanba,

Physical description

1 print : etching

Contributors

Related material

Select images of this work were taken by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: WT/D/1/20/1/59/61

Lettering

Le jeune chimiste. D. Teniers pinx. Jorma sc.

Creator/production credits

The Teniers picture is known only through engravings, of which the first is made by Jacques Aliamet

Notes

Other copies of this print are also held in the Wellcome Library. A reversed version, etched and published in 1755 by Major (using his own name), is in the Wellcome Library, catalogue no. 36024i

Reference

Wellcome Collection 36032i

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