The various operations of alchemy, Domenico Beccafumi

1540-1550

a series of ten prints Woodcut

collection the British Museum.

 

A silversmith who stands by a flame at the left an anvil in the foreground

The barber (?), an old man ties up a group of men on the ground

The blacksmith working at his forge

The gunner, holding aloft pots of fire, his right leg on a cannon

The forger standing by an anvil pulling a man bound in chains, Mercury occurs in the upper right

The alchemist behind an elderly man who approaches a number of jars set upon a ledge

An old man chasing off various Gods at left

The bell caster

A metal caster demolishing an interior structure

The blacksmith approaching a rocky outcrop, Mercury occurs at the left