A man sharpening a blade on a whetstone. Etching by F. Perrier.

  • Perrier, François, 1590?-1656?
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A man sharpening a blade on a whetstone. Etching by F. Perrier. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The sculpture known as the "Arrotino" (knife grinder), also as the "Listening slave", in the Uffizi, Florence, from 1677: Haskell and Penny, loc. cit.

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1 print : etching

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References note

F. Haskell and N. Penny, Taste and the antique, the lure of classical sculpture 1500-1900, New Haven and London 1981, pp. 154-157, no. 1 (no mention of this print)

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Wellcome Collection 11416i

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