Alchemical Laboratories in Art

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Hans Weiditz (fl. early 16th century) An Alchemist, c. 1520.	Woodcut by Cornelis A. Teunissen, 1541	Pieter Brueghel the Elder (1525-1569) An Alchemist at work, mid 16th cent.
Engraving of Jan van der Straet (1523-1605) Distillatio, late 16th cent.	Copperplate engraving from 1675 from a painting by F. van Mieris.	Engraving of goldmakers from 1698

Alchemist with his furnace, fresco, Padua c. 1380.	Raimon Lull as alchemist, from the Opera chemica manuscript c. 1470, now in Florence.	Manuscript from 1470
Miniature of alchemist in his laboratory from Janus Lacinius manuscript, 1583

Jan van der Straet (1523-1605) Distillatio, late 16th cent.	Adrian van Ostade (1610-85) The Alchemists, 1657.	David Teniers (1610-1690) The Alchemist, c.1645	David Teniers (1610-1690) The Alchemist, 1680
Jan Steen (1626-1679) The Last Coin	Jan Steen (1626-1679) The Village Alchemist	Heindrick Heerschop (1627-?) The Alchemist's Experiment takes Fire 17th cent.
Pietro Longhi The Alchymist, 1761.	Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-97) The Alchymist in Search of the Philosophers' Stone discovers Phosphorus	J. Zoffany David Garrick as Abel Drugger in Jonson's The Alchemy, c.1770.
J.J. Rink, based on a painting of David Teniers The 'Laboratory, 1793.	Sir William Fettes Douglas The Alchemist 19th cent.	David Scott Paracelsus Lecturing on the Elixir Vitae, 19th cent.