The Alchemist in Search of the Philosopher’s Stone
by Joseph Wright of Derby (1771) 

Depicting the discovery of the element phosphorus by German alchemist Hennig Brand in 1669. A flask in which a large quantity of urine has been boiled down is seen bursting into light as the phosphorus ignites spontaneously in air.

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