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495 results filtered with: Bénard, 1731-1794
  • Optics: camera obscura (top) and a Leeuwenhoek style microscope (below). Engraving by Benard [after Lucotte].
  • Fisher-folk and their methods of work. Engraving, c.1762, by Benard after L.J. Goussier.
  • Process of producing lead sheet, and the tables used. Etching by Bénard after L.J. Goussier.
  • Textiles: equipment used for spinning silk. Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Moulds used in pewter manufacture. Etching by Bénard after Lucotte.
  • A human skeleton, seen from the back, bent forward with his hands clasped to his skull, after Vesalius. Engraving by Benard, late 18th century, after a woodcut, 1543.
  • Two halves of a plaster mould of an arm and an entire plaster mould of an arm. Engraving by R. Bénard after Bourgeois.
  • Saddles: three different types. Engraving, c.1762, by Benard after Lucotte.
  • Processing of zinc. Etching by Bénard after L.J. Goussier.
  • Diamondworks: elevations of faceted cut diamonds. Etching by Bénard after Lucotte.
  • Textiles: tapestry weaving, the top of a loom. Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • Mirrors: a work table and other equipment for making tinted looking-glasses. Engraving by Benard after Lucotte.
  • Various wigs and wig accessories for women, left; two patterns of wigs for men, right. Engraving by R. Bénard.
  • Textiles: tapestry weaving, a loom in elevation (top), and in plan (below), with part of a tapestry. Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • Architecture: sections and plans of a furnace, masonry details. Engraving by Bénard [after Lucotte?].
  • Moulds used in pewter manufacture. Etching by Bénard after Lucotte.
  • Fisher-folk, and their net-making equipment. Engraving, c.1762, by Benard after L.J. Goussier.
  • Paris: a floating bath-house on the Seine, established by Poitevin in 1761; lettered key floor and design plans. Engraving by R. Bénard, 1771, after J.R. Lucotte.
  • Details of the anatomy of the penis, after Heister and Graaf. Engraving by Benard, late 18th century.
  • A selection of picks and moulds. Etching by Bénard after Lucotte.
  • Textiles: tapestry weaving, a loom in an interior (top), details (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • Mathematics: various surveying instruments. Engraving by Benard.
  • A workshop where plumage is applied to clothing, above; tools for making and applying plumage, below. Engraving by R. Bénard after Radel.
  • Textiles: silk dyeing, washing cloth in a river (top), a spar used for winding silk thread (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • A mine: cross-section of an equipment for extracting ore from the pit. Etching by Bénard after L.J. Goussier.
  • Textiles: tapestry weaving, two men tensioning a loom (top), one man tensioning a loom (below). Engraving by R. Benard after Radel.
  • A sculpture in a barrow drawn along on a sledge to its intended location in a church; with diagrams below of the machinery for positioning it. Engraving by R. Bénard after P. Falconet and Bourgeois.
  • Printing: The train of a press, with many details. Engraving by R. Benard after L.-J. Goussier.
  • The base of the skull and foetal skeletons of different ages. Engraving by Benard, late 18th century.
  • Men are working with mallets to fit the pieces together to make wheels. Engraving by Bénard after L.J. Goussier.