For Luck

• Engraved by Ferdinand Landerer (1730–1795), German. After Johan Martin Schmidt
• Plate: 6.75 x 5 in.
  Photo engraving
• Not on display
• Gift of Fisher Scientific International
• Fisher Collection
• FA 2000.001.083
• No known copyright restrictions

Description

A man is about to drop a scorpion into a boiling cauldron. Beneath him lay a skull, books, and a pan; above him hangs a stuffed creature.