Gallery›Wellcome Collection›An monkey-alchemist pumps a bellows in a laboratory; alluding to the vanity of alchemy. Photomechanical reproduction of an engraving by J.P. Le Bas after D. Teniers the younger, ca. 1650.
An monkey-alchemist pumps a bellows in a laboratory; alluding to the vanity of alchemy. Photomechanical reproduction of an engraving by J.P. Le Bas after D. Teniers the younger, ca. 1650.
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An monkey-alchemist pumps a bellows in a laboratory; alluding to the vanity of alchemy. Photomechanical reproduction of an engraving by J.P. Le Bas after D. Teniers the younger, ca. 1650.

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Lettering: Le plaisir des fous. Tenier inv. F. Basan exc.

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