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his life from early youth in il aretiri:l? for fie philosophers' stone arid in trying io make gold from base muta.i.
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the courtesy of the Bernheim Distilling Company we are enabled to publish No. 145 in the Berolzheimer series of Alchemical and Historical Reproductions. This is from a modern painting and shows the famous Italian alchemist, Count Bernardus di Trevisanus (1406-1490), who spent
Like his predecessors and sitccessors he failed, but eventimiiy, on h i s death-bed, realizing the futility of his: endeavors, he whispered: "'To maku gold one must start with gold.'# The artist has, with little a,iid simple apparatus:, portrayed the spirit of the work being done, although it is doubtful that the laboratory was as neat and tidy as shown.
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BEROLZHEIMER ALCHEMICAL AND HISTORICAL REPRODUCTIONS HESE prints of famous paintings and engravings were started in the August, 1931, issue, and appear monthly thereafter in our volumes for the subsequent years. Orders for photographic prints 8 by 10 inches at $1.50, and 16 b y 20 inches a'i $4, specifying the numbers here indicated and titles as given, should be sent with advance payment to D.D.Berolzheimer, 50 East 4.M Si.., New York, N. Y. These photographs are not carried in stock, but are ordered only on receipt of remittance. Purchase of these photographs does not confer any rights of publication of these reproductions, Special arrangements must be made with Mr. Berolzheimer to abtain such rights, Prints and enlargements can be supplied in black and white only,velvet, matt, or glossy finish. Prints in color cannot be supplied, nor oi any size smaller than 8 by 10 inches. An additional reproduction will be published each month. The list of reproductions published during 1941 and 1942 follows. The figures in parentheses following the name of the artist denote the pages on which the respective reproductions will be found, A list: of the first 96 reproductions was published in the January, 1939, issue, page 124, and of Nos.92 to 120 in the January, 1941, issue, page 114. 1941 121. 122, 123. 124. 125. 126. 127. 128. 129. 130. 131. 132.
Le Chemiste, Mieris (114) Chinese Alchemist, Ts'ao (256) The Alchemist, Webb (374) Chymischer Goldt Narr, Weiyel (549) Suitland Alchemist, Artist Unknown (581) Goldmacher Narr, Weigel (786) De Scheider, Luyken (943) Two Alchemists, Artist Unknown (1048) The Alchemist, After Teniers (1153) Alchymist, Wijck (1330) Distillation, Stradano (1439) The Sorcerer, Forestier (1528)
133. 134. 135. 136. 137. 138. 139, 140. 141. 142. 143. 144.
1942 The Studious Alchemist, Artist Unknown (119) Hocus Pocus, Rowiandson (216) Porcelain Manufacture, Kiessling (341) Distillation, Artist Unknown (448) The Alchemist, Fawcett (602) Spallanzani, Sarra (721) The Alchemist's Explosion, Bentum (838) Louis XI ai Plessis-ies-Tours, Ratinckx (942) Invention of the Devil, Artist Unknown (liX8) The Apothecary, Artist Unknown (1199) Alchemist's Laboratory (1381) Chemical Allegory, Moreau (1479)