Occupation title source   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. On a regular ba...
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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.
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