The Hermetic androgyne; representing the stages of the alchemical Work in One. Watercolour painting by E.A. Ibbs.

Ibbs, Edith A.

Date:: 1900-1909

Reference:: 38739i

Part of:: Splendor solis

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The Hermetic androgyne; representing the stages of the alchemical Work in One. Watercolour painting by E.A. Ibbs. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced June 2023 : The Hermetic androgyne; representing the stages of the alchemical Work in One. Watercolour painting.

Description

With one red wing, another white, and garments black, the androgyne contains the three phases of the work in one. In its right hand it holds a circle containing a mirror reflecting nature. In its left hand it holds an egg, known as the Philosophical Egg, because it contains all the four elements at once

Publication/Creation

1900-1909

Physical description

1 painting : watercolour ; image 36.2 x 25.3 cm.

Series

Splendor solis

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Creator/production credits

Painted by Edith Annie Ibbs (1863-1937) on commission from the secretary of the Historical Medical Exhibition organized by Henry S. Wellcome (C.J.S. Thompson), ca. 1907, and subsequently exhibited in the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London

References note

For detailed information on this series, cf. J. van Lennep, L'alchimie, Brussels 1984, pp. 110-129

Reference

Wellcome Collection 38739i

Reproduction note

After: Salomon Trismosin, Splendor solis, 1582, British Library, Harley ms. 3469