Red-Chalk Sketch of a Machine, Perhaps a Cloth-Shearer
A sanguine drawing of a mechanism; the catalogue tentatively identifies it as a shearing machine, no text transcribed
The page carries a single loose sketch in red chalk (sanguine) of a mechanical assembly, with jointed arms, hinged flaps and a horizontal shaft or roller set on a frame; the catalogue caption identifies it tentatively as the figure of a cloth-shearing machine. No writing is present on the leaf apart from faint bleed-through from the facing page, and no text has been transcribed for it.
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Red-chalk study of a mechanism
A sanguine sketch shows a machine built around a horizontal shaft or roller mounted on a frame, with jointed arms reaching up to hinged flap-like elements at the upper right and a further linkage extending to a smaller shaft below. The catalogue reads it, with a query, as a cloth-shearing machine.