The dwarf Blasius Rauchmantl as an alchemist, c. 1710
A colored engraving shows a small, stout caricatured man in a black hat, round spectacles, and a purple coat, leaning on a cane beside a brick furnace where smoke rises from a crucible. Below the plate, lines of German and Latin black-letter text fill the margin, and a faint page number sits in the upper right of the sheet.
- Artist
- attributed to Martin Engelbrecht
- Date
- 1705-1715
- Medium
- Source
- Rijksmuseum
- Size
- 2883 × 4000 px
Public domain · Rijksmuseum marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1715.
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/)
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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