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  • Interior with an alchemist seated at a table, looking out of the picture. Oil painting by Thomas Wijck (Thomas Wyck).
  • An alchemist poring over a book, on his table stand an hour-glass, a skull, and an astrological globe. Engraving by J.N. Tardieu after D. Teniers the younger, 1640/1650.
  • Roger Bacon conducting an alchemical experiment in a vaulted cloister. Etching by J. Nasmyth, 1845.
  • An alchemist's laboratory. Oil painting.
  • A hooded alchemist at a furnace; above him hang dead animals: caricature. Watercolour painting.
  • Two workers in an alchemist's laboratory, surrounded by chemical receptacles and equipment. Engraving, 1669.
  • An alchemist in a long robe standing reading above an open chest of books which he has rifled through; a large vaulted hall surrounds him, littered with alchemical apparatus. Pen and pencil drawing by J. Nasmyth, 1854.
  • An alchemist making gold. Oil painting by Hendrik Heerschop, 1665.
  • 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.
  • Interior with an alchemist seated at a table, looking out of the picture. Oil painting by Thomas Wijck (Thomas Wyck).
  • An alchemist in his laboratory. Oil painting by James Nasmyth.
  • An alchemist in his laboratory. Oil painting by a follower of David Teniers the younger.
  • Two alchemists seeming to produce gold from a furnace; the accompanying text satirises those who pursue alchemy for gold alone. Engraving by C. Weigel, 1698.
  • An alchemist blowing on a fire to heat a still (?). Oil painting attributed to Christian-Wilhelm-Ernst Dietrich, called Dietricy.
  • An alchemist. Oil painting by Eugène Lomont, 1890.
  • M0006965: An alchemist reading in a laboratory
  • An alchemist using bellows at a furnace in his laboratory. Etching by T. Major, 1750, after D. Teniers the younger.
  • An alchemist in his laboratory. Oil painting after David Teniers the younger.
  • Richard Burdon Haldane as an alchemist using bellows, representing his eloquence, to distil a new military unit from three older units. Pen drawing by A.S. Boyd, 1907.
  • An alchemist applying bellows to a fire beneath a retort. Oil painting by a Neapolitan painter, 18th (?) century.
  • A chemist and his assistant as "puffers" heating a substance in a retort; representing a theatre critic who "puffs" the actor Joseph Holman at the bidding of his editor. Etching attributed to T. Rowlandson, ca. 1786.
  • 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 in his laboratory. Oil painting by a follower of David Teniers the younger.
  • Michael Sendivogius (Sędziwój), the alchemist, demonstrating the art in the court of Rudolf II. Drawing after V. Brožik.
  • An alchemist's laboratory: a young man drinks an elixir of life while the alchemist is incapacitated. Wood engraving by H.K. Browne (Phiz), 1865.
  • Interior with an alchemist examining a bowl brought by a boy. Oil painting by Thomas Wijck (Thomas Wyck).
  • Interior with an alchemist seated at a table, looking out of the picture. Oil painting by Thomas Wijck (Thomas Wyck).
  • An alchemist reading in a smoky study. Etching by A. Bouquet after L-G-E. Isabey.
  • An alchemist applying bellows to a furnace. Oil painting by a follower (?) of François-Marius Granet.
  • An alchemist in his laboratory. Oil painting by a follower of David Teniers the younger.