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Maker(s):	Bernard, Robert
Culture:	French (b.1734)
Title:	print: Teinturier de Riviere
Date Made:	1772
Type:	Documentary Artifact
Materials:	laid paper, ink
Place Made:	France
Measurements:	Frame: 19 3/4 x 23 1/8 x 1 1/4 in; 50.2 x 58.7 x 3.2 cm; Mat: 17 1/2 x 21 1/4 in; 44.4 x 54 cm; Sheet: 15 5/16 x 19 3/8 in; 38.9 x 49.2 cm; Plate: 13 7/8 x 17 1/2 in; 35.2 x 44.4 cm
Accession Number:	HD 2016.41.1
Credit Line:	Hall and Kate Peterson Fund for Paintings, Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
Museum Collection:	Historic Deerfield

Description:
One of a set of eight prints depicting silk dyeing in France. This image depicts a river dyeing operation for silk yarn. Access to water sources was important for 18th-century dyeing of fabric and yarns. In the case of silk, water cleaned the fibers before dyeing. Plate I in the series, it is drawn by Radel, engraved by Robert Bernard.

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