An allegory of chemistry Size:L: 75 x 50cm Paper watermarked: 'J

Paper watermarked: 'J

Porter leans against a nineteenth-century wooden library table with both hands on the table edge

Perspective view with figures and carriages

Achille Varzi in a Bugatti T51

An allegory of chemistry Size:L: 75 x 50cm Paper watermarked: 'JAllegorical plate showing Gaia [?] offering a vessel to Hermes, who carries keys and holds aloft a caduceus. The vessel is inscribed 'Influentia' [influence]. Between them is the Earth, inscribed 'Ne Frustra' [not in vain]. Both gods stand on a cloudscape with the Moon and Sun behind. Frontispiece to A treatise for the service of chemistry in general; exhibiting the universal and specific principles of body; the simple and uniform procedure of nature