The alchemist

BRY, Johann Theodor de (Strasbourg, 1561 - Frankfurt, 1623), after Maerten de Vos and Pieter Cool.

The alchemist.

Engraving, 1596

85x95 mm. (lower margin with inscription cut).

Graphite inscription on the verso.

Bibliography:

Hollstein Dutch 240-287

Lower margin with inscription cut "PAUPERTATEM ALIUS FUGIT, AST HIC ADVOCAT IPSAM": Most people avoid poverty, but he attracts it.

Illustration to "Emblemata Saecularia" (Frankfurt, 1596).