A guide through the Royal Porcelain Works
A guide published in 1895 by the Royal Porcelain Works in Worcester, England, showing visitors the factory's production rooms. The plates are line engravings of workers at benches, in pressing, decorating, painting and burnishing rooms, with the room name printed in the margin. A designer could take their dense crosshatched shading and the crowded, receding workshop perspectives as a model for period factory scenes.
