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Black-and-white engraving of a cluttered alchemist's laboratory with copper stills and flasks, a family in the room, and a snowy village seen through a window at right.

An alchemist in his laboratory with his family, after Bruegel

A black-and-white engraving shows a cluttered alchemist's laboratory filled with copper alembics, flasks, and bellows, where a seated man bends over a table of glass vessels. A woman and children cross the room, and through a window at right, figures stand in a snowy village near a poorhouse.

Artist
Pieter Brueghel the Elder
Date
[1558?]
Medium
Engravings
Source
Wellcome Collection
Size
4000 × 2909 px
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Public domain · Wellcome Collection marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1568.
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