The Sun and the Moon over the King and the Queen

The Sun and the Moon over the King and the Queen

The King and the Queen as the central motif, with the Sun and the Moon in a secondary part. From Splendor Solis, after.

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

  1. 1The King and the Queencentral motif
  2. 2The Sun and the Moonsecondary motif

A queen in blue and a king in red stand on spheres before a landscape; above them a blue moon with a face and a red sun with a face; the king's staff is wound with a serpent; the King and the Queen as the central motif, the Sun and the Moon and the Serpent 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 997 by 1400 pixel web copy made from the source file; nothing retouched, nothing upscaled.
Series
Artist
Edith A. Ibbs, watercolour copies after Splendor Solis, 1900 to 1909, Wellcome Collection
Titled here
The Sun and the Moon over the King and the Queen. Wellcome Collection catalogues it as: A moon above a queen dressed in blue, and a sun above a king dressed in red; representing two alchemical principles: the dissolving 'lac virginis' (mercury) and the coagulating masculine principle (sulphur). Watercolour painting by E.A. Ibbs.
Checked
Wellcome Collection's own catalogue record, 4 September 2026: the rights, the maker, the date, accession fkh7h75r. The title on this page is ours, as the line above says. Not seen in the gallery.
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Cite
Symbolica, “The Sun and the Moon over the King and the Queen”, Edith A. Ibbs, after Salomon Trismosin, Splendor Solis, 1900 to 1909. thesymbolica.com/work/the-sun-and-the-moon-over-the-king-and-the-queen/