The skeleton of Death and the alchemist. Death holds a vial above a chemistry experiment that explodes in flame in the alchemist’s tongs. Bottles of the Elixir of Life and Caput Mortuum (nigredo) on the floor with a book of symbols and a spoon. The alchymist. Illustration drawn and engraved on steel by Richard Dagley from his own Death’s Doings, Consisting of Numerous Original Compositions in Verse and Prose, J. Andrews, London, 1827. Dagley (1761-1841) was an English painter, illustrator and engraver.

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