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Six different trades: gold-beating, weaving, carpentry, umbrella-making, pharmacy and locksmithing. Coloured etching.
Wellcome Collection

Six different trades: gold-beating, weaving, carpentry, umbrella-making, pharmacy and locksmithing. Coloured etching.

Unknown artist

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Wellcome Collection

Lettering: Trades. Handwerke. Métiers. A gold-beater requires a heavy hammer. The weaver is preparing his loom. Do you think the carpenter would lend me his saw? A chemist pounds his drugs in a mortar. The locksmith has made me a new key.

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