1807 Copper Engraving Flax Brake Heckle Scutcher Farm Machinery Agriculture TCF1 CARS7 Rousseau claimed to be self

Rousseau claimed to be self taught

This is an original 1958 black and white rotogravure of Henri Matisse painting a portrait

in White Plains

This is an original 1970 black and white print ad for action toys from the Masudaya Toy Company of Japan featuring the B/O Silver Mountain Express

The duo-toned prints wonderfully capture Poncin's quick observational sketches

1807 Copper Engraving Flax Brake Heckle Scutcher Farm Machinery Agriculture TCF1 CARS7 Rousseau claimed to be self"Apparatus for Dressing Flax" This is an original 1807 black and white copper engraving of a flax hand brake that is used to break and separate the boon or core from the flax (figs. 1 and 2), a flax foot brake (fig. 3), a beating or scrutching machine (fig. 4), a flax heckle used to straighten the fibers of flax (fig. 5), a flax rippling comb used to separate the bolls from the flax seed (fig. 6), a flax stock and scutcher (fig. 9), and other farm