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Red leather tanners
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Red leather tanners

anonymous · 1719 · letterpress printing; houtsnede; paper

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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In the tanner's workshop, leather is tanned (in the trough on the left), freed of hair and cleaned with a scraper, dried and dyed. In the doorway a leather merchant. Subject categories within the Atlas of Customs and Manners: Trade, Industry and Commerce, Professions and Businesses, Complete suites.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
Credit lineRood leerlooiers. 1719. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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