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a| [Planches Instruments de musique] b| Plates from the Encyclopédie: 'Instrumens de Musique' - 'Laminage du Plomb' - 'Lavures de Cendres d'Orfevrerie' - 'Layetier' - 'Lunetier'- 'Luthier'

a| s.l. b| Briasson; David; Le Breton c| 1786?

a| [17+12+1+2+4+21] plates b| contains a selection of plates from a quarto edition of the Encyclopedie. Plates on single and double pages, no text.

a| From the Encyclopédie (Diderot / D'Alembert) : Recueil de planches, sur les sciences et les arts

a| 17 plates on musical instruments depict various kinds of instruments sorted in categories: strings, winds, keyboards, ancient, hebrew, etc.

a| 12 plates on 'Laminage du Plomb' depict the tools and workplace set up of plumbers, including cross section views of their machines.

a| 1 plate on Lavures de Cendres d'Orfevrerie (extracting silver and gold from mixed materials by melting); 2 plates on tools and products of a 'Layetier' (wooden box maker); 4 plates on the 'Lunetier' (lens maker).

a| 21 plates on the products and tools of a 'Luthier': the 'harpe organisée' and its pedals, various parts of the organ, tools for making string instruments, winds instruments, and harpsichords.

a| All plates have the signature: "Benard direxit".Wikipedia: "The signature "Benard fecit" on plates probably indicates the work of his own hand; the signatures "Benard Direx" and "Benard Direxit" indicate the work of the atelier of engravers he directed for many years."

a| Benard supplied about 1800 plates to the Encyclopedia by Diderot & D'Alembert. He died in 1777 so these plates (probably from the 1786 edition) are from his studio or atelier.

1| http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7015 a| 18th Century (1701-1800) 9| 20899

a| Organology 1| http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q899293 9| 21400

a| Encyclopedia 1| http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5292 9| 2184

1| http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q142 a| France 9| 131

1| http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q153232 4| edt a| d'Alembert, Jean Le Rond d| 1717-1783 9| 4826

1| http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q448 4| edt a| Diderot, Denis d| 1713-1784 9| 14909

4| ill 9| 26066 a| Benard, Robert d| 1734-1777

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b| ORPH c| ORPH j| ORPH.KTS1 C3.06 04K06

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