A Queen in Red is Presented with Dishes of Blood

The King and the Queen as the central motif. From The Flamel figures.

Maker not recorded; catalogued with the Flamel prints, date not recorded.

Coloured etching from the Hieroglyphic Figures attributed to Nicolas Flamel.

Public Domain Mark · Web copy 993 by 1400 px · Wellcome Collection

Key · 1 motif

The motifs the picture carries, filed by role. The marks on the picture itself come with the entry.

1The King and the Queencentral motif

The picture

A crowned queen in red stands between two men who hold out dishes to her; a wreath of flowers in the cloud above; below, a bed with figures in it and a man and a woman beside it; the King and the Queen as the central motif, by eye. By eye

Not yet decoded: the key and the sourced notes come with the entry. Until then the motifs above are tagged by eye and said so.

Also carrying the King and the Queen

35 works carry it. The 6 where it is the central motif are here. The symbol.

In the same series

The Hieroglyphic Figures attributed to Nicolas Flamel

Record

Source

Wellcome Collection

Rights

Public Domain Mark. Wellcome Collection marks the work as free of known copyright restrictions.

Restoration

None. A 993 by 1400 pixel web copy made from the source file; nothing painted, nothing upscaled.

Series

The Hieroglyphic Figures attributed to Nicolas Flamel

Titled here

A Queen in Red is Presented with Dishes of Blood. Wellcome Collection catalogues it as: A queen in red is presented with dishes of blood on a hill; below, a man in a white robe gesticulates to the heavens; while another man stands next to alchemical apparatus, facing a man who is lying sick in bed; representing a stage in the process of alchemy. Coloured etching, ca. 18th century.

Checked

Wellcome Collection's own catalogue record, 4 September 2026: the rights, the maker, the date, accession e7pg6b28. The title on this page is ours, as the line above says. Not seen in the gallery. Corrected 10 September 2026. This sheet was filed as "After Nicolas Flamel, attributed"; the Wellcome does not make that attribution. Its note on the group says: "From a collection of five prints (Wellcome Library nos. 38626i, 38627i, 38628i, 38629i, 38630i) stored in the Wellcome Library with a set of prints relating to the writings of Nicolas Flamel. The collection seems to comprise two disparate series (the number 6 appears twice) Although similar in style to the Flamel-related series ... they do not seem to be directly related, because 1) the numbering in the latter series includes some of the numbers of this collection and 2) thematic differences: the Flamel-related series comprise subjects either related to Flamel's writings or the Book of Revelation. Here the imagery seems to be more arcanely alchemical". The three sheets filed here on the same day that do carry Flamel's described figures are V0025615, V0025616 and V0025617.

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Symbolica, “A Queen in Red is Presented with Dishes of Blood”, Maker not recorded; catalogued with the Flamel prints, date not recorded. thesymbolica.com/work/a-queen-in-red-is-presented-with-dishes-of-blood/