French born engraver, known for his 1765 frontispiece of the "Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers"

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Clocks: details of a dividing engine for setting out gearwheels. Engraving by Prevost [after G. d'Heuland].

Carpentry: an oblique pile-driving machine, floating by a river bank. Engraving by Prevost after Lucotte.

Hunting: snares for catching ground-feeding birds, and musical notation of bird-song. Engraving, c.1762 by B.-L. Prevost.

Chemistry: various furnaces. Engraving by Prevost after L.J. Goussier.

Hunting: nets for catching ground birds. Engraving, c.1762.

A chemical laboratory and a table of chemical relations. Engraving by Prévost after L.J. Goussier, 1763.

Chemistry: equipment for distillation. Engraving by Prevost after L.J. Goussier.

Eyes and noses. Engraving by B.L. Prevost.

A standing nude female figure seen from behind. Engraving by B.L. Prevost after C.N. Cochin.

Manufacture of sealing wax. Etching by B.L. Prévvost after L.J. Goussier.

The parts and uses of a pantograph. Engraving by B.L. Prevost after L.J. Goussier.

Ship-building: an anchor workshop (top), and tools (below). Engraving by Benard after L.J. Goussier.

Hands. Engraving by B.L. Prevost.

A workshop for the production of marbled papers: workmen variously grinding colours, dipping and combing papers, hanging sheets to dry on a line (top), equipment (below), the whole lettered and numbered for a key. Engraving by Prevost.

Clocks: spring driven clock mechanism. Engraving by Prevost after G. d'Heuland.

Carpentry: an assortment of tools. Engraving by A.J. Defehrt after Lucotte.

Clocks: a device for balancing cogs. Engraving by Prevost after Bourgeois.

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Benoît-Louis Prévost

Images from the collections

Images by Benoît-Louis Prévost

Works from the collections

Hands. Engraving by B.L. Prevost.

A workshop for the production of marbled papers: workmen variously grinding colours, dipping and combing papers, hanging sheets to dry on a line (top), equipment (below), the whole lettered and numbered for a key. Engraving by Prevost.

Clocks: spring driven clock mechanism. Engraving by Prevost after G. d'Heuland.

Carpentry: an assortment of tools. Engraving by A.J. Defehrt after Lucotte.

Clocks: a device for balancing cogs. Engraving by Prevost after Bourgeois.

Frequent collaborators

Benoît-Louis Prévost

Images from the collections

Images by Benoît-Louis Prévost

Works from the collections

Hands. Engraving by B.L. Prevost.

A workshop for the production of marbled papers: workmen variously grinding colours, dipping and combing papers, hanging sheets to dry on a line (top), equipment (below), the whole lettered and numbered for a key. Engraving by Prevost.

Clocks: spring driven clock mechanism. Engraving by Prevost after G. d'Heuland.

Carpentry: an assortment of tools. Engraving by A.J. Defehrt after Lucotte.

Clocks: a device for balancing cogs. Engraving by Prevost after Bourgeois.

Frequent collaborators

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