| Occupation title source |
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Planteur de tabac |
| Occupation title (english) |
Tobacco Grower |
| Hiscode |
62290 |
| Description of Image |
A man wearing a soft hat and rumpled clothes stands with his legs spread apart, his right foot pressed against a post with hemp cord attached to it. He holds trimmed broom straws between both hands, and leans backwards, straining and pulling the straws towards him, while binding the cord about them tightly. Behind him in the shop, a second man wearing a broad-brimmed hat has a bundle of straw on a barrel which he is preparing to trim with a very sharp, large-bladed chopping knife. He raises this cleaver above his head with his right hand. The workshop floor is strewn with straw. Light enters t...
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| Gender |
Male |
| Title of the image |
Fabrique du Tabac VI |
| Subtitle |
Oeconomie rustique |
| Translation (English) |
Tobacco |
| 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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