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Artist
- Name:
- Bourdelin, Émile
- Country:
- France
Illustration
- Subject:
- People, Science & technology
- Technique:
- Wood engraving
- Engraver:
- Linton, Henry Duff
- Format:
- Landscape (wider)
- Source:
- The Getty Research Institute, the Internet Archive
Book
- Title:
- Les grandes usines, vol. 1
- Author(s):
- Turgan, Julien
- Publisher:
- Paris: Michel Lévy Frères, 1875
- Open Library:
- View record
Description
A compositor is leaning over the lower case with a composing stick in his left hand, about to pick up a character to fill in a line of type.
The caption reads in the original French: Un compositeur à sa casse.
Keywords: 1870s, 19th century, black & white, printing, working
