Accession number
PML 145850.143
Published
[Amsterdam : Joannem Janssonium à Waesberge, & Elizeum Weyerstraet, 1666]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Caption title.
Alchemical diagram evidently removed from a copy of: Reconditorium ac reclusorium opulentiae sapientiaeque numinis mundi magni, cui deditur in titulum Chymica vannus, obtenta quidem & erecta auspice mortale coepto ... (Amsterdam : Joannem Janssonium à Waesberge, & Elizeum Weyerstraet, 1666); at the front of the second section of pagination.
Engraved diagram printed in black ink, with full caption reading: Character adeptorum in cruce sub sphaera venit sapientia vera.
Mounted as item 143 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Alchemical diagram evidently removed from a copy of: Reconditorium ac reclusorium opulentiae sapientiaeque numinis mundi magni, cui deditur in titulum Chymica vannus, obtenta quidem & erecta auspice mortale coepto ... (Amsterdam : Joannem Janssonium à Waesberge, & Elizeum Weyerstraet, 1666); at the front of the second section of pagination.
Engraved diagram printed in black ink, with full caption reading: Character adeptorum in cruce sub sphaera venit sapientia vera.
Mounted as item 143 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Description
1 print : engraving ; image: 175 x 135 mm; sheet: 198 x 151 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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