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Men are working in a salt mine using hammers to break the rock and others are carrying it away in handcarts. Mixed method print by P. Herwegen after Hans Brunner.

Women and men being fitted with the clothes for work in salt mines, other people are watching from the edge of the room. Mixed method print after P. Herwegen after Hans Brunner.

Above, allegorical figures of Reason and Revelation, standing in niches; below, men and devils digging in a saltmine. Engraving, 1670/1685, after W. Hollar, 1659.

Das Saltz-Werck zu Halle in Sachsen befindlich / von Friedrich Hondorffen ... eigendlich beschrieben mit angefügten Copien, der vornehmsten, in solcher Beschreibung angegezogenen [sic] Recesse, Verträge, Abschiede und andere Urkunden. Ingleichen den gewöhnlichen Eydes-Formuln der Regenten, Beampten, Bedienten, und Arbeiter im Thale daselbst.

Le sel / par Eugène Lefebvre.

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Women and men being fitted with the clothes for work in salt mines, other people are watching from the edge of the room. Mixed method print after P. Herwegen after Hans Brunner.

Le sel / par Eugène Lefebvre.

Above, allegorical figures of Reason and Revelation, standing in niches; below, men and devils digging in a saltmine. Engraving, 1670/1685, after W. Hollar, 1659.

Men are working in a salt mine using hammers to break the rock and others are carrying it away in handcarts. Mixed method print by P. Herwegen after Hans Brunner.