Hocus Pocus or Searching for the Philosopher's Stone

• 1800
• After Thomas Rowlandson
• Image: 9.75 x 12 in.
  Hand-colored lithograph on wove paper
• Not on display
• Gift of Fisher Scientific International
• Fisher Collection
• FA 2000.001.233
• No known copyright restrictions

Description

A satirical scene of an alchemical laboratory with two men in the foreground, one with a pair of long bellows. In the background is a couple hugging each other and dressed in fine garments.

Inscription

Pub March 12 1800 at R Ackermans Repository of the arts N. 101 Strand