Quarrymen plasterers and their tools, 18th century. Workers at a plaster stone quarry, with axe, shovel, hammer, pick, etc. Architecture: Maconnerie, carrier-platrier. Copperplate engraving by Robert Benard from Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d’Alembert’s Encyclopedie (Encyclopedia), Geneva, 1778.

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