Occupation title source |
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Fromager |
Occupation title (english) |
Cheese maker |
Hiscode |
77540 |
Description of Image |
A man, wearing a broad-brimmed hat, kneels in a flatbottomed barge laden with vegetables, which he has brought to the edge of a canal. He passes some vegetables, turnip-like kohlrabi, to a bareheaded woman who is kneeling at the edge of the street to receive them. Behind her, a man with a soft cap pushes a wheelbarrow loaded with the vegetables away from the canal's edge towards buildings across the market square. The wheelbarrow must be heavy: the man pushing it has supporting straps across his shoulders and back down to the handles; and he stoops slightly with the weight.
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Gender |
Male |
Title of the image |
Addition |
Subtitle |
Oeconomie rustique |
Translation (English) |
Cheese |
Language source |
French |
Country source |
France |
Date of creation |
1763-1777 |
Medium |
Plate |
Collection name |
Diderot |
Provenance |
D. Diderot & J. Le Rond d`Alembert eds, Encyclopédie méthodique. Paris 1763-1777 & 1783-87. |
Product |
2,1 |
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