This children's picture teaches, briefly and effectively, what use mechanics does: how it relieves people of work, and accomplishes an incomprehensible amount (title on object), Sheet with 8 representations of men using tools, such as a press and a crane . Below each image a six-line verse. Numbered top right: F., print, publisher: Johannes Bouwer en de weduwe Johannes Ratelband (II), (mentioned on object), print maker: anonymous, publisher: Amsterdam, print maker: Netherlands, 1794 - 1804, paper, letterpress printing, height, 327 mm × width, 411 mm

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License: Licensed
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