Apparatus for amending metals by nitre (saltpetre) mb-width 2818 represented by a child slave

represented by a child slave pleading with the representative of the Northern States for protection

Sutton (1532-1611) was the founder of the hospital at Charterhouse

and vowing to help beat the Southern States

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Apparatus for amending metals by nitre (saltpetre) mb-width 2818 represented by a child slaveBoth pictures on this plate are part of Johann Rudolf Glauber's treatise on the 'Continuation of Miraculum Mundi'. The upper image depicts 'A Gift offered to all diligent Physicians The manner of concentrating and amending of Metals by Nitre' (the distilling vessel is designed as 'a Man made of Iron, having two noses on his head'). The lower picture shows the furnace used in 'a Gift presented to rich Merchants', again involving the use of nitre