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Spiegel van 't menschelyk bedryf : vertonende hondert-verscheyde ambagten zeer konstig afgebeeld en met zeer zinryke spreuken en stigtelyke versen verrykt

Luiken, Jan, 1649-1712, Luiken, Caspar, 1672-1708, Visscher, Nicolaes, 1649-1702 · 1694 · Onlands uytgegeven tot Amsteldam : Door Nicolaus Visscher · 100 pictures

Spiegel van 't menschelyk bedryf is a 1694 Dutch book of one hundred trades, engraved by Jan and Caspar Luiken and published in Amsterdam by Nicolaes Visscher for a general readership. Its engravings show craftsmen at work in workshops and interiors, with each trade set in a plain domestic or artisan space, and a designer might take from them the compact staging of tools, figures and rooms within a single framed scene.

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