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A young alchemist works a bellows at his furnace. Etching by T. Major, 1755, after D. Teniers the younger.
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A young alchemist works a bellows at his furnace. Etching by T. Major, 1755, after D. Teniers the younger.

David Teniers

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Lettering: The laboratory. To William Pitcairn M.D. This plate is inscribed, by his gratefull and obliged humble servant Thos. Major. In the collection of Hen. Isaac esq.r. D. Teniers pinx.t T. Major sculp.

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