A dwarf alchemist and his assistant standing by a crucible. Etching, 18th century.
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- Il Callotto resuscitato
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The elaborate border contains two men spying on the alchemist from above, two dressed monkeys at the side, and two fat men smoking very long pipes at the bottom
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1 print : etching.
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Mercurius sublimate a chymist, and his man crucible. The great extractor of our gold requires,/ Each day, new products from chymeric fires: ...
Lettering continues: "Bids crucible those nobler arts employ/ Which drein the pocket, and kind health destroy./ Thus dulcifying fools, they find, too late,/ They're poor, secundum artem, not by fate"
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Wellcome Collection 36428i
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