18th century illustration representing parchement workshop activities - unhairing and scraping; soaking and washing; stretching; chalking and pumicing

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18th century illustration representing parchement workshop activities - unhairing and scraping; soaking and washing; stretching; chalking and pumicing and finally cutting. 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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