Image from an alchemical manuscript by an unknown author, ca. 1725.
Featured on PDR in the collection Rainbows in Art
Or, since that hope denied in worlds of strife,
Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life!
The evening beam that smiles the clouds away,
and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray!
(Lord Byron, The Bride of Abydos)
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Image from an alchemical manuscript by an unknown author.
Date
ca. 1725
From
Wellcome MS 4775
