Address : Adam McLean, 15 Keir Street,
Glasgow, G41 2NP, U.K.
Telephone : 0141 429 5614
0044 141 429 5614 internationally
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Email: adam@alchemywebsite.com Address : Adam McLean, 15 Keir Street, Glasgow, G41 2NP, U.K. Telephone : 0141 429 5614 0044 141 429 5614 internationally
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Alchemical and hermetic emblems 1116 images coloured by Adam McLean on four CD-Roms This is the most significant collection that has ever been made of alchemical and related emblems. These have been hand coloured by Adam McLean from original woodcuts, engravings and drawings in manuscripts. An enormous amount of research has gone into uncovering rare and previously unknown emblems, and obtaining high quality images of these items. McLean has handcoloured these images to make them more approachable by the modern eye. In some cases, with the most complex emblems, it took over 15 hours to paint an image. The painting respects the original traditional colouring of images in alchemical manuscripts. Creating this resource has taken about ten thousand hours of work over the past ten years. These images have been used in McLean's books and study courses. Over the past ten years or so I have been making handcoloured emblems by painting with watercolours copies of woodcuts and engravings from printed books and drawings from alchemical manuscripts. In colouring these I made use of my intensive study of the original coloured manuscripts of the 15th to 18th centuries, which have been the main focus of my research over many years. I have found that contemplation and meditation on these handcoloured images helps us resonate with and enter into the complex symbolic world of alchemy. In the autumn of 1999 I began to make these images available in the form of high quality prints that people could frame or use for study. In late 1999 I began my e-mail study course on the interpretation of alchemical imagery and I drew upon this resource for the course lessons. For various technical reasons, and to protect my copyright, and the thousands of hours of my work that went into vcreating these, it was not possible for me to provide high resolution scans of these images on the alchemy web site. This has now been remedied through issuing these CD-Roms. The images on these CD-Roms have been scanned at high resolution using low compression, so that users can zoom into small areas of the image to examine it in detail. I also provide most of the emblems as medium resolution jpg files in a special folder. This will enable people who prefer to look at images on paper to make reasonably sized printed copies. Such copies are for personal study only and must not be distributed or used in commercial projects. The 1116 images are compiled into Adobe Acrobat files which make them accessible on both the Windows and Macintosh platforms. To view the images on these CD-Roms you will have to obtain a copy of the Adobe Acrobat Reader. The Windows installation (version 5) is included on the discs. Versions for other computer systems are available free from the Adobe web site. This CD-Rom provides the images for viewing on a computer screen. It does not allow users to copy and paste the images. These images are for private study only, and purchasing this CD-Rom does not give the user the right to distribute these images (which are copyright by Adam McLean) on any medium, including Internet web sites, for commercial or non-commercial purposes. If you want to use any of these images in a project, please contact Adam McLean <adam@alchemywebsite.com> Special discount price if you buy all four volumes at once is £60 ($120)
a 25% saving from the full price of £80 ($160). This price includes postage worldwide.
If you want to buy an individual disc See Emblems Volume 1 See Emblems Volume 2 See Emblems Volume 3 See Emblems Volume 4 Currency convertor
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