Hand-Blocking Wallpaper

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Hand-block printing of wallpaper.

Artist

Name:: Férat, Jules
Dates:: 1829-1906
Country:: France

Illustration

Subject:: Science & Technology
Technique:: Wood Engraving
Format:: Landscape (wider)
Source:: The Wellcome Library, the Internet Archive

Book

Title:: Les merveilles de l'industrie, vol. 2
Author:: Figuier, Louis
Publisher:: Paris: Furne, Jouvet et Cie, n.d. [1873-1877]
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Description:

View of a workshop where a man is using a hand-block to impress motifs on a strip of wallpaper while his apprentice is getting a second block ready.

The caption reads in the original French: Impression à la planche du papier peint.

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