Gallery›Wellcome Collection›An alchemist with his family in their dim dwelling, working a bellows at his furnace. Engraving by J.C. Bentley after A. van Ostade, 1661.
An alchemist with his family in their dim dwelling, working a bellows at his furnace. Engraving by J.C. Bentley after A. van Ostade, 1661.
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An alchemist with his family in their dim dwelling, working a bellows at his furnace. Engraving by J.C. Bentley after A. van Ostade, 1661.

http://data.europeana.eu/agent/150233 · 1661

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Lettering: The alchymist. Painted by A. van Ostade - engraved by J.C. Bentley. The picture in the collection of the right hon. Sir Robert Peel, Bart.

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