Wellcome uses cookies.

Read our policy
Wellcome Collection homepage
All
Stories
Images
Catalogue
Events

Active filters:

Prévost, Benoît Louis, approximately 1735-1804?Reset filters
104 results
  • Clocks: details of a dividing engine for setting out gearwheels. Engraving by Prevost [after G. d'Heuland].
  • Carpentry: an oblique pile-driving machine, floating by a river bank. Engraving by Prevost after Lucotte.
  • Hunting: snares for catching ground-feeding birds, and musical notation of bird-song. Engraving, c.1762 by B.-L. Prevost.
  • Chemistry: various furnaces. Engraving by Prevost after L.J. Goussier.
  • Hunting: nets for catching ground birds. Engraving, c.1762.
  • A chemical laboratory and a table of chemical relations. Engraving by Prévost after L.J. Goussier, 1763.
  • Chemistry: equipment for distillation. Engraving by Prevost after L.J. Goussier.
  • Eyes and noses. Engraving by B.L. Prevost.
  • A standing nude female figure seen from behind. Engraving by B.L. Prevost after C.N. Cochin.
  • Manufacture of sealing wax. Etching by B.L. Prévvost after L.J. Goussier.
  • The parts and uses of a pantograph. Engraving by B.L. Prevost after L.J. Goussier.
  • Ship-building: an anchor workshop (top), and tools (below). Engraving by Benard after L.J. Goussier.
  • Wood-workers with various tools of the trade. Etching after Prevost.
  • Hands. Engraving by B.L. Prevost.
  • Men with two boys attending a demonstration on the anatomy of the horse. Etching with engraving by Prevost after C.F. Sollier, 17--.
  • The brain, after Haller and Ridley. Engraving by Prevost, 1762.
  • Hunting: nets for catching ground birds, and hunting at night with torches. Engraving, c.1762, by B.-L. Prevost.
  • Manufacture of tin products with various tools of the trade. Etching by Defehrt after Prevost.
  • Chemistry: various crystalline substances. Engraving by Prevost after L.J. Goussier.
  • Men in a workshop making musical instruments, some of which are suspended from the ceiling; tools are around a bench. Engraving by Bénard after Prevost.
  • A mine: cross-section and diagrams of furnaces. Etching by Bénard after Prevost.
  • A furnace and implements used in butchery. Etching after Prevost.
  • A bearded male nude figure with outstretched arms imploring a young seated male nude figure at whose feet he sits. Engraving by B.L. Prevost after J. Jouvenet.
  • Chemistry: various vessels for distillation. Engraving by Prevost after L.J. Goussier.
  • Female liane of Chilli (Lardizabala biternata Ruíz & Pavón): fruiting stem with tendrils and floral segments. Engraving by Heath, c.1798, after Prevost.
  • The Borghese Gladiator seen in several views and in details. Engraving by B.L. Prevost.
  • Ship-building: details of a ship of the line. Engraving by Benard after L.J. Goussier.
  • Clocks: details of a dividing engine for setting out gearwheels. Engraving by Prevost after L.J. Goussier.
  • Carpentry: the foundations for a bridge, laid on piles inside a caisson. Engraving by Prevost after Lucotte.
  • The brain, after Haller and Ridley. Engraving by Prevost, 1762.