‘Alkymiae secrete servabo’
Date
1652
Creator
Robert Vaughan (1590, British) , Engraver
Object type
Library reference
16605
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (page): 187mm
width (page): 133mm
height (print): 142mm
width (print): 101mm
width (page): 133mm
height (print): 142mm
width (print): 101mm
Subject
Description
Two angels look down on two men; one seated holding out a book to the other, as if in instruction. The four figures are positioned underneath an arch, the columns of which are decorated with female figures and headed with lions. A thick border of flowers, fruits and rabbits lines the print.
Speech scrolls surround the angels and the men below. They are inscribed in Latin: ‘Secreta Sctae/Alkymiae secrete servabo/Accipe donum Dei sub…Sacrato’ [..]
Border inscription: ‘Ro: Vaughan Sculp:’
Figure 1 from Elias Ashmole’s Theatrum chemicum Britannicum: containing severall poeticall pieces of our famous English philospohers..., a compilation of alchemical literature selected and annotated by the author. This figure in between Ashmole’s prologue to the book and Chapter 1: Thomas Norton’s ‘The Ordinall of Alchimy’.
Elias Ashmole (1617-1692) British astrologer and antiquary was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1661.
Speech scrolls surround the angels and the men below. They are inscribed in Latin: ‘Secreta Sctae/Alkymiae secrete servabo/Accipe donum Dei sub…Sacrato’ [..]
Border inscription: ‘Ro: Vaughan Sculp:’
Figure 1 from Elias Ashmole’s Theatrum chemicum Britannicum: containing severall poeticall pieces of our famous English philospohers..., a compilation of alchemical literature selected and annotated by the author. This figure in between Ashmole’s prologue to the book and Chapter 1: Thomas Norton’s ‘The Ordinall of Alchimy’.
Elias Ashmole (1617-1692) British astrologer and antiquary was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1661.
Related fellows
Elias Ashmole (1617 - 1692, British) , Astrologer
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