Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.10361
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An allegory of chemistry and nature
Date
1712
Creator
Unknown, Engraver
Object type
Library reference
Tracts/X80/2
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 242mm
width (print): 186mm
width (print): 186mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Allegorical plate showing a putto raking a smoking furnace around which is scattered chemical retorts and apparatus; with a crown, sword, mitre and other worldly treasures behind. The furnace leads upward in a three-tiered pillar upon which are specimens of geology, plant life and animals. At the top is a multi-breasted female figure [Nature?] with a pair of lions on her shoulders.
Frontispiece to Actorum chymicorum Holmiensium Parasceve, id est praeparatio ad tentamina in Regio Laboratorio Holmiensi peracta...by Urban Hierne [Hjärne] (Stockholm, J.H.Werner, 1712).
The plate is not signed. Inscribed below ‘Sola Dei placent Magnalia, caetera Sperno’ [Only the great works of God please, the other reject].
Frontispiece to Actorum chymicorum Holmiensium Parasceve, id est praeparatio ad tentamina in Regio Laboratorio Holmiensi peracta...by Urban Hierne [Hjärne] (Stockholm, J.H.Werner, 1712).
The plate is not signed. Inscribed below ‘Sola Dei placent Magnalia, caetera Sperno’ [Only the great works of God please, the other reject].
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