1774 · Programmable Writing Automaton · Work 1082 of 1,871
A watchmaker's workshop in the Swiss Jura on a clear spring morning, low sunlight from small-paned windows across a beech workbench, on a stool a seated boy figure about seventy centimetres high seen from directly behind, dark brown curls, a grey goose quill in his right hand, his dark red velvet jacket opened at the back, inside a dense brass mechanism of rods, levers and a stack of cam discs, at its base a large toothed brass wheel ringed with small removable steel pins, a hand in a rolled linen sleeve holding watchmaker's tweezers at the wheel, loose watch parts and an oil lamp soft behind.