18th century illustration of a wall where is a crude cordwalk for spinning cordage, and a cauldron of tar for impregnating it. Published in "A Diderot

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18th century illustration of a wall where is a crude cordwalk for spinning cordage, and a cauldron of tar for impregnating it. Published in "A Diderot Pictorial Encyclopedia of Trades and Industry. Manufacturing and the Technical Arts in Plates Selected from "L'encyclopedie, ou Dictionnarie Raisonne des Sciences, des Arts et des Metiers" of Denis Diderot". (Charles Coulston Gillispie, Dover Publications, New York, 1959).

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License: Royalty Free
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