Antique Master Print-ALCHEMIST-WORKSHOP-SCIENCE-CHYMIST-HOURGLASS-Boydell-1752
John Boydell
Publication Date: 1752
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Pictura Prints, Art & Books, Overasselt, Netherlands
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'THE CHYMIST.'Original antique master print showing a bearded alchemist squints closely at his experiment as he tends a small fire with a pair of hand-bellows. Beside him, his young assistant looks on. This busy and productive workroom also houses a pair of assistants who work with mortar and pestle at a table to the rear of the room. Glass distillation vessels, flasks, and books lie scattered on the floor, and a print has been pinned against the far wall, close to a suspended taxidermied fish specimen hung above.Made by after an anonymous artist.Medium: Etching / engraving with hand colouring on hand laid (verge) paper.Sheet size: 43 x 34.5 cm (16.93 x 13.58 inch). Image size: 35 x 25 cm. (13.78 x 9.84 inch).ALCHEMIST-WORKSHOP-SCIENCE-THE CHYMIST | DPO-A2-003-45BACKGROUND INFORMATIONSource: unknown, to be determined.Biography engraver: John Boydell (1720-1804) was an English publisher noted for his reproductions of engravings. Condition: good, given age. Some damp staining but mainly visble on verso. Some minor crinkles bottom left corner. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully. Seller Inventory # PCO-30066
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Title: Antique Master ...
Publication Date: 1752
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