The Magi Sheltering in a Cave

The Magi Sheltering in a Cave

The Heavens as the central motif, with the Sun and the Moon in a secondary part. From The Flamel figures.

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

  1. 1The Heavenscentral motif
  2. 2The Sun and the Moonsecondary motif

Sun face top left, moon face top right, 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 1021 by 1400 pixel web copy made from the source file; nothing retouched, nothing upscaled.
Series
Titled here
The Magi Sheltering in a Cave. Wellcome Collection catalogues it as: The magi sheltering in a cave on the way to Bethlehem; here representing mercury converted into sulphur, at the moment of its fixation in the alchemical process. Coloured etching after etching, 17th century.
Checked
Wellcome Collection's own catalogue record, 4 September 2026: the rights, the maker, the date, accession kxgbxnyz. The title on this page is ours, as the line above says. Not seen in the gallery.
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Cite
Symbolica, “The Magi Sheltering in a Cave”, After the figures of Abraham the Jew, from Nicolas Flamel, date not recorded. thesymbolica.com/work/the-magi-sheltering-in-a-cave/