[Five large symbolic drawings in watercolour. 19th …]

Five large symbolic drawings in watercolour. 19th century.
[Figure 1. Green Lion devouring Sun. In ornate yellow gold circular frame.]
[Figure 2. Severed hand with sigils of planetary archangels on the fingers and palm. Ornate frame not completed but sketched in pencil.]
[Figure 3. Male and female being wedded by Mercurius-Bishop, as in the sixth of Basil Valentine's Twelve Keys. Ornate frame not completed.]
[Figure 4. Death in form of skeleton, with target in background, and corpse and crow, with skulls labelled Salt, Sulphur, Mercury. Moon eclipsing Sun in the heavens. In ornate frame Echoes the symbolism of the eighth of Basil Valentine's Twelve Keys.]
[Figure 5. Man standing in form of pentacle, bearing symbols for Mars, Venus, Saturn and Jupiter on the limbs, which have the corresponding planetary colours. The figure, who is crowned also stands on the Sun and Moon, and has Mercury symbol in many colours, crowned and on a disc, at his navel. Two fumes come from his mouth one labelled Salt the other Sulphur.]
[Formerly accessioned as 2277]

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