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An alchemist using a crown-shaped bellows to blow the flames
Artist
John Gillray
Title
An alchemist using a crown-shaped bellows to blow the flames
Description
William Pitt the Younger as an alchemist using a crown-shaped bellows to blow the flames of a furnace and heat a glass vessel in which the House of Commons is distilled; representing the dissolution of parliament by Pitt.
Date 21 May 1796
Medium Etching with watercolour
Dimensions 36 x 26 cm
Object history [London] (New Bond Street) : H. Humphrey
Credit line

Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1796. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).

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Inscriptions The dissolution, or the alchymist producing an aetherial representation. Js. Gy. des et fect.
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Wellcome Collection 12184i

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Wellcome Collection

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