Adam McLean's Gallery of alchemical images
Emblems reflecting alchemical and hermetic ideas
Religious, mystical and other material with some relationship to alchemy.
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EMB16. Emblem from Camerarius, Symbolorum et Emblematum, 1595.

EMB17. Engraving of Mercury as inventor of Astronomy from Monde primitif, Paris, 1773.

EMB18. Woodcut 'Chronos as an Angel' from Stephen Hawes, The Pastyme of Pleasure, 1509.

EMB19. Woodcut of hermaphrodite from Barthelemy Aneau, Picta Poesis, 1552.

EMB20. Woodcut of two witches from Ulrich Molitor, 1508.

EMB21. Woodcut portrait of Albertus Magnus in his study from Liber Secretorum Alberti Magni, 1502.

EMB22.Engraving by Matthaeus Merian from Icones Biblicae, Frankfurt, 1627.
EMB23. Woodcut by Lucas Cranach from Vollbibel Luther, Wittenberg, 1534.

EMB24. Woodcut from Braunschweig Das Buch der Cirurgia, 1497.

EMB25. Woodcut from Braunschweig Das Buch der Cirurgia, 1497.

EMB26. Engraving from [Melchior Küsel] Bibel von Buggel und Hagen, Nürnberg, 1702.

EMB27. Engraving from Ichnographia Emblematica, Augsberg, 1779.

EMB28. Woodcut from Paracelsus Auslegung von 30 magischen Figuren Strassburg 1616.

EMB29. Engraved frontispiece from Gichtel's edition of Boehme's Mysterium Magnum

EMB30. Woodcut of witch from Petrarch Das Glüchbuch, Augsburg, 1539.

EMB31. Angel - 16th century woodcut.

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