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| Keywords: The Medical Alchemist by Janneck FA.2000.00.275.jpg Artwork Creator Franz Christoph Janneck Three figures are shown in a well-lit room in front of an open window In the background is a cabinet full of glassware Centrally a seated alchemist in a physician's red cap with fur trim holds a flask in his right hand and leans with his left on a table and an open astrological book The alchemist looks poorly dressed and unkempt with balding hair and a scruffy beard The Turkish carpet on the table is frayed The physician holds up a urinal to inspect its contents including the sediment that has collected at the bottom against the light At left in the middle ground an older seated woman holds a walking stick facing the alchemist In the left foreground a man kneels his head turned right to watch the diagnosis He is using bellows to blow up the fire of an open free standing furnace On top of the furnace is a distillation apparatus A red fluid is being distilled in the retort and a yellow distillate has collected in the receiver A wicker basket full of charcoal is within reach of the assistant In the right foreground on the floor are books a mortar and pestle apparatus and a scroll with planetary and zodiacal symbols At the time of painting astrological medicine was no longer practiced by reputable physicians so the inclusion of the astrological details suggests he is somewhat of a quack century 18 oil copper in 9 12 5 Institution Chemical Heritage Foundation Transmutations Alchemy in Art 2002 by Lawrence M Principe and Lloyd DeWitt pg 30 object history exhibition history Exhibition The Fisher Collection at the Franklin Institute Philadelphia PA December 13 1972 to March 4 1973 nr 20 credit line Gift of Fisher Scientific International CHF Collections http //www chemheritage org/ Chemical Heritage Foundation Photograph by Will Brown Image downloaded with permission from the Chemical Heritage Foundation as part of the Wikipedian in Residence initiative CHF-cooperation PD-old-100-1923 cc-by-3 0 Chemical Heritage Foundation accession number FA 2000 001 275 Franz Christoph Janneck Alchemists from Austria Oil on copper 18th-century oil paintings Images from the Chemical Heritage Foundation Chemical Heritage Foundation Uroscopy Urinalysis History of medicine Urinalysis Male fur headgear in art | ||||
