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  • The interior of an engraver's workshop with diagrams of engraving tools below. Engraving by Defehrt.
  • Implements used in woodwork. Etching by Defehrt.
  • An abattoir: animals are being killed and the carcasses hung up from beams. Engraving by A.J. Defehrt.
  • Machinery and implements used in the manufacture of iron netting. Etching by Defehrt.
  • Techniques for engraving maps (top), and musical notation (below): tools shown between. Engraving by Defehrt (maps) and Madame de Lusse (music).
  • The Apollo Belvedere seen from the front and in three quarter view; a boy holding a water vessel; one of the sons of Laocoön battling with a serpent. Engraving by A.J. Defehrt after G. Audran.
  • Masque in honour of King Charles III of Spain: three chariots carrying pagan deities of the moon, the earth and fire. Etching by A.J. Defehrt after F. Tramullas, 1764.
  • The Belvedere Antinous seen from the front and back, and in both lateral views, with details of the head and feet. Engraving by A.J. Defehrt after G. Audran.
  • A young draped man looking backwards. Engraving by Defehrt after A. Carracci.
  • Tools for working and polishing gemstones. Engraving by Defehrt after Boucher.
  • Laocoön and his sons. Engraving by Defehrt after G. Audran.
  • Surgery: instruments to perform a mastectomy. Engraving with etching by A.J. Defehrt after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Chemistry: various interconnected vessels. Engraving by A.J. Defehrt after L.J. Goussier.
  • A seated male nude figure. Engraving by Defehrt after J.H. Fragonard.
  • Chemistry: various furnaces. Engraving by A.J. Defehrt after L.J. Goussier.
  • Carpentry: a water-driven saw-mill, short section and plan of the water-wheel mechanism. Engraving by A.J. Defehrt after L.J. Goussier.
  • Surgery: an assortment of surgical instruments, including a catheter, a probe and a spatula. Engraving with etching by Defehrt after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Four faces expressing (clockwise from top left): admiration mixed with astonishment, admiration, veneration, and ecstasy. Etching by A.-J. Defehrt after C. Le Brun.
  • A camera obscura shown in use in a landscape and in diagram. Engraving by A.J. Defehrt after L.J. Goussier.
  • Type punches, tweezers etc. (top), with specimens of roman and italic fonts (below). Engraving by Aubin after himself, Defehrt dirext.
  • Surgery: top, a rectum with a fistula; below, a number of bandages. Engraving with etching by A.J. Defehrt after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Surgery: Left, surgical instruments to retrieve foreign objects from the oesophagus; right, a bladder with a bladderstone and a hernia. Engraving with etching by Defehrt after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Hunting: a man stalking partridges (?) (top), a trap for catching ground-feeding birds. Engraving, c.1762 by Defehrt after L.J. Goussier.
  • Enamelling: female enamellers making artificial pearls (top), equipment (below). Engraving by Defehrt after L.J. Goussier.
  • Surgery: surgical instruments including a small tube for inserting into the body to allow fluid to enter or escape (cannulla) and a surgical scalpel (bistoury) Engraving with etching by A.J. Defehrt after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Engraving tools, punches, files, an anvil etc., for cutting seals. Engraving by A.J. Defehrt after J.N. Boucher.
  • Surgery: surgical instruments including a catheter and lithotomy forceps. Engraving with etching by A.J. Defehrt after L.-J. Goussier.
  • Enamelling: an enameller painting by a window, another crouching by a furnace (top), details of the furnace (below). Engraving by Defehrt after L.J. Goussier.
  • A standing nude female figure bowing her head in her hands in an attitude of grief. Engraving by Defehrt after C.N. Cochin.
  • Mouths and ears. Engraving by Defehrt after L.J. Goussier.