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Miners and a forge

Anonymous woodcut after a design by German Renaissance artist Hans Weiditz (II) (1495-1537), 1514-1532. Ore is being extracted on the back (left) with hammers, chisels, and pickaxes. Metals are being extracted from the ore in the back (center and right). The mined and extracted metal is being worked into metalware in the foreground. (Courtesy of the Rijkmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Public domain. Edited by Dr. Douglas J Lanska.)