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Engraving of a workshop producing gunpowder and cannons, with an alchemist vignette and a city under artillery fire.

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The Invention of Gunpowder, Jan Collaert the Elder (1600). Via artnap.com

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An engraved print showing a workshop where men cast cannons, grind and pour powder beside a large furnace, and operate a water wheel. A vignette in the upper center depicts an alchemist at work, and a distant walled city is under cannon fire at the upper right.