The Chymist: alchemist at a furnace in his laboratory

An elderly bearded man in a black cap sits at a stone furnace, working a bellows or vessel beside a hearth, while a second figure tends a table at right. Shelves, flasks, pots, hanging herbs and an open book fill the cluttered room. The black-and-white etching shows fine crosshatched shading and a lettered title cartouche below.

Artist

David Teniers the Younger

Date

7 May 1750 :

Medium

Etchings

Source

Wellcome Collection

Size

2846 × 4000 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Wellcome Collection