The Alchymist

• Etched by William Baillie, Irish. After David Teniers II
• Plate: 9 in. W x 7 1/2 in. H
  Etching on wove paper
• Not on display
• Gift of Fisher Scientific International
• Fisher Collection
• FA 2000.001.234
• No known copyright restrictions

Description

A bearded old man stoking a fire with a pair of bellows in a laboratory.

Inscription

He's in Belief of Chymistry, so bold, if his dream last, he'll trun the Age to Gold.