Compositor Making Up a Line of Type

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Artist

Name:: Bourdelin, Émile
Country:: France

Illustration

Subjects:: People, Science & Technology
Technique:: Wood Engraving
Engraver:: Linton, Henry Duff
Format:: Landscape (wider)
Source:: The Getty Research Institute, the Internet Archive

Book

Title:: Les grandes usines, vol. 1
Author:: Turgan, Julien
Publisher:: Paris: Michel Lévy Frères, 1875
Open Library:: View record

Description:

A compositor is leaning over the lower case with a composing stick in his left hand, about to pick up a character to fill in a line of type.

The caption reads in the original French: Un compositeur à sa casse.

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