Name this... woodcut

Factual Questions
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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, classic illustration, and Bettmann Archive.

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Try here. Lots of pictures for you to sort through.

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Okay, this is my first post so patience please if I screw something up.

The Bettman Archive is now the Corbis Corporation and is owned by Microsoft (erk). They have a website at http://www.corbis.com and clicking on shopping will let you search for images. Only 2.1 million of their 65 million (double erk) images are online, but by searching for alchemy I found a few woodcuts and engravings. Dunno if one of these is what you’re after.

Alchemy: http://store.corbis.com/search/productsearch.asp?sc=&search=alchemy&hidKeywordSearch=&hidSearchCategory=0&pf=&navid=&hidIsNewSearch=TRUE

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I finally found the damn picture. The trick was that it wasn’t Faust but his assistant Wagner (not the muscian) in the picture:
http://rpmedia.ask.com/ts?u=/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Faust_image_19thcentury.jpg/140px-Faust_image_19thcentury.jpg

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I hope you never have a grudge with me…
Eleven years!

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How did it feel to scratch that 11-year itch?

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That is one weird picture. Wagner has a weird little smirk on his face, and it looks like he’s happy to be distilling a baby. Maybe he’s trying to make baby oil.

(Yes, I kniow it’s homunculus. It still looks too chubby, like a baby.)

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Like a Klingon tearing his worst enemy’s head off. :smiley:

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I just wanted to say I love this image. Thank you for sharing it with us.

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If you remember the Dark Angel TV show, I imagine Max having it on the wall of her apartment.

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Man, Ebenezer Scrooge had some fucked-up hobbies.

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Old picture link no good- here’s the new one:

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Not sure if that link is any good either – it re-directs me to a search page on Faust images.

Try this one, from this Wiki page. (Don’t know if this is the same pic as OP’s long-lost link. And it doesn’t clearly identify if the alchemist in the photo is supposed to be Wagner; only that it illustrates a scene from Faust. But the guy certainly has a satisfied look on his face.)

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Lumpy’s link works for me.