File:Alchemy - Mercury and sulfur personified - Wellcome Collection.jpg

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Ibbs, Edith A.
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English: Alchemy. Mercury and sulfur personified, from the sixteenth century. A moon above a queen dressed in blue, and a sun above a king dressed in red; representing two alchemical principles: the dissolving 'lac virginis' (mercury) and the coagulating masculine principle (sulphur). Watercolour painting by E.A. Ibbs.
Date between 1900 and 1909
date QS:P571,+1900-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1900-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1909-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Wellcome Collection -- https://wellcomecollection.org/works/fkh7h75r
Source/Photographer www.nature.com ARTS REVIEW 29 April 2020 Jennifer Rampling: Elixirs for times of plague and bullion shortage. Spectacular alchemical scrolls record ideas of flux in times of massive upheaval - medical, social, economic and political
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