The Laboratory, 1849. Artist: Dante Gabriel An illustration to Browning's poem 'The Laboratory', set in the eighteenth-century, this said to be Rossetti's first. watercolour over a An alchemist seated in his laboratory accepts jewellery from a woman in payment for poison to destroy her rival. The painting illustrates the lines 'In this devil's smithy / Where is the poison to poison her prithee?'

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