Mechanical Elephant novel?

[Lumpy]

My previous record was 11 years when I finally found a reference for Wagner (Faust’s assistant, not Faust himself) and the homunculus.

Name this... woodcut

It’s a woodcut/engraving picture of an alchemist creating a homunculus. The one place I saw it before was talking about the Faust legend. However, the caption did not cite a title, an artist’s name, or what book the picture was originally from. (Might not even have necessarily been from any book about Faust.) The only picture credit in the book where I saw it was “Bettmann Archive”. I searched every conceivable variation of the words Faust, Faustus, homunculus, alchemy, Paracelsus, woodcut, clas…

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