Alchemical Devices, after the Ripley Scroll

Alchemical Devices, after the Ripley Scroll

The Vessel as the central motif. From The Ripley Scroll, after.

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

  1. 1The Vesselcentral motif

A tall narrow sheet of small alchemical devices read from top to bottom: a reclining figure, a tabernacle, a dragon with a figure, flasks, a sun and a moon, in red, gold and green; the Vessel 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.

Record

Source
Rights
Public Domain Mark. Wellcome Collection marks the work as free of known copyright restrictions.
Restoration
None. A 378 by 1400 pixel web copy made from the source file; nothing retouched, nothing upscaled.
Series
Titled here
Alchemical Devices, after the Ripley Scroll. Wellcome Collection catalogues it as: Alchemical devices. Watercolour after George Ripley.
Checked
Wellcome Collection's own catalogue record, 4 September 2026: the rights, the maker, the date, accession syws9dy2. The title on this page is ours, as the line above says. Not seen in the gallery.
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Symbolica, “Alchemical Devices, after the Ripley Scroll”, Watercolour after George Ripley, date not recorded. thesymbolica.com/work/alchemical-devices-after-the-ripley-scroll-right/