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2025

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Book Illustration, Encyclopédie, ou, Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers (Encyclopaedia, or a systematic dictionary of the sciences, arts, and crafts), vol. 8; Tapissier—suite de la façon d’un fauteuil (Upholstery, the steps in making an armchair), plate 9

This is a book illustration. It was edited by Denis Diderot. It is dated ca. 1769. Its medium is engraving on paper. It is a part of the Smithsonian Libraries department.

It is credited Collection of Smithsonian Institution Libraries.

Its dimensions are

H x W: 40 × 26.5 cm (15 3/4 × 10 7/16 in.)

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