Die Sechste gliechnis. Book illustration from Library of Congress

The sixth allegory, showing a man holding a sword and decapitated head standing by dismembered body signifying alchemical purification through separation.
Illus. and text in: Aureum vellus / Salomon trismosin. Rorschach am Bodenese : Ertslich gedruckt, 1599.
Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1987, p. 174.