Wellcome Collection
Jan Ingen-Housz with his Austrian servant Dominique demonstrating the properties of vegetables. Soft-ground etching.
Unknown artist
Lettering: The sage ambitious to instruct the fair, Extracts from cabbage leaves his vital air, Shews how each plant can boast the double use Of latent fire and aliamental juice: Planets and satellites appear at will, Proclaim his pow'r and verify his skill. His mighty thunder then he deals around, The very walls reecho to the sound: Dominique with fear and wonder gazes, Following the Doctor thro' his magic mazes.
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