Boucher. [The Butcher] Engraving. Original single leaf plate from Diderots Encyclopedia.

Fine impression print, couple tiny dings, but no affect, bit of trimming at top, overall still excellent. Illustrates butchers at top in slaughterhouse and butchery instruments below. Most suitable for framing. ?Plate from Diderot?s Encyclopedia or Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts and Professions . ?The Grand Encyclopedia? was more than a summary of all contemporary knowledge, it served as a manifesto for a new way of looking at the world by depicting and describing many of the instruemnts and processes which transformed the world during the Industrial Revolution? [- Getty images]. The butcher plate, is plate 1 of its series and was originally in vol.2 of Encyclopedie ou Dictionaire raisonne des sciences, des arts et des metiers, Paris, 1763. Citations: Univ. of Michigan. The Townsends Blog. A Woodsrunners Diary.