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Figure 6. (a) Pietro Longhi (1702-1785): “The Alchemists”, c. 1757, oil on canvas, 61 ×
50 cm (Galery Ca' Rezzonico Venice). (6) Carl Spitzweg (1802-1885): “Der Alchimist”,
c. 1860, oil on canvas, 36 × 38 cm (Staatsgalerie Stuttgart).
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Figure 7. (a) “A British Chymist analizing a Corsican earth worm!!” Coloured aquatint
by Temple West (c 1739-1783), published: London 1803 (Wellcome Library). (b) “Le
médecin aux urines: Oh! mon bon Dieu, quelle fièvre...” Lithograph after Charles Émile
Wattier (1800-1868) (National Library of Medicine). (c) “Nineteenth Century Doctor -
still water gazing”, Wood engraving after Adam Adolf Oberländer (1845-1923), c. 1890
(National Library of Medicine).
Figure 8. From left to reight: Justus von Liebig; August Kekulé (original painting from
1892); William Henry Perkin with a skein dyed mauve (original painting from 1892);
Marcelin Berthelot (all images Edgar Fahs Smith Collection).
