Credit: Courtesy Chemical Heritage Foundation Image Archives, Philadelphia, Penna. Photo by Will Brown.

From The creation of color in eighteenth-century Europe by Sarah Lowengard

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  • European: 1400-1800
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  • N.C. Wyeth, "The Alchemist," oil on canvas, 1937. A twentieth-century painting that shows the attributes of alchemical practices—a roaring furnace, mystical location, preserved blowfish, and befuddled practitioners—in a comment on the endeavors at large. Credit: Courtesy Chemical Heritage Foundation Image Archives, Philadelphia, Penna. Photo by Will Brown.