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Black-and-white etching of a laboratory with a skylight, furnaces, shelves of glass jars, and a long table with apparatus on a stone floor.

Design for a general chemical laboratory, with the apparatus numbered. Etching by A.W. Warren, 1822, after C. Varley.

A detailed etching of a general chemical laboratory with a large skylight overhead, a brick furnace and hooded stove at left, and shelves lined with glass jars and bottles. A long wooden table with apparatus and a stone-flagged floor fill the foreground, rendered in fine black-and-white line work.

Artist
Cornelius Varley
Date
1822
Medium
Etchings
Source
Wellcome Collection
Size
4000 × 3300 px
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Public domain · Wellcome Collection marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1822.
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: Public Domain Mark (Wellcome Collection)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Wellcome Collection

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