Johann Samuel Hallens, Professors der Historie bei dem Königlichen Preussischen Kadettenchore in Berlin, Werkstäte der heutigen Künste, oder, Die neue Kunsthistorie : mit Kupfern und Vignetten
Johann Samuel Halle's 1761 Berlin work Werkstäte der heutigen Künste, published in Brandenburg and Leipzig for a readership interested in trades, is an illustrated survey of contemporary crafts and industrial arts. Its copperplate plates show tools, machines and workshop apparatus drawn in precise numbered figures, with fine hatching and labelled parts, offering a designer clear reference for mechanical drawing and the visual language of eighteenth-century technical illustration.
