A FINE COMMEMORATIVE SILK PORTRAIT OF JOSEPH-MARIE JACQUARD WOVEN ON ONE OF HIS EPONYMOUS LOOMS, CIRCA 1847
by Rüti, Zürich: Maschinenfabrik Rüti after the original painting by Jean-Claude Bonnefond depicting Jacquard seated in his workshop, a model of his loom with loose punch cards, tools and measuring drums arranged on racks behind, view through the musket-ball broken window of a town, signed in cartouches along lower margin -- 18½ x 12½in. (47 x 32cm.) framed and glazed
