Alchemy & Hermeticism
Amalgamation of gold with mercury
A standing figure points a sword towards a crowned ruler seated on a throne. Plate 3B in Alchemy: Ancient and Modern identifies the scene as a symbolic representation of gold amalgamating with mercury. Its courtly confrontation turns a material process into human action. Redgrove’s caption supplies that alchemical context without requiring every costume detail to have a fixed symbolic meaning.
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"Amalgamation of gold with mercury" [editorial title]. In Alchemy: Ancient and Modern, H. Stanley Redgrove. Second and revised edition, 1922, William Rider & Son, Ltd.. Source scan leaf 54. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/alchemy-amalgamation
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Amalgamation of gold with mercury. Alchemy: Ancient and Modern. Scan leaf 54. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/alchemy-amalgamation