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Engraving of an elderly woman seated in a chair beside a man, with flasks and jars on a table and a figure tending a hearth at right.

Alchemist: engraved print of a laboratory scene with Dutch verse

An engraved print shows an elderly woman seated in a wooden chair, holding a small object, with a man leaning over her shoulder beside a table crowded with flasks, jars and a round vessel. At right, a figure tends a hearth beneath a tall chimney, and verse captions with the headings ONMOGELIJCK and IMPOSSIBLE appear below.

Artist
Abraham Jacobsz. (mentioned on object)
Date
1639-1641
Medium
Source
Rijksmuseum
Size
3472 × 4000 px
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Public domain · Rijksmuseum marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1641.
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: Public Domain Mark (Rijksmuseum, image license https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

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