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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;2manybooks, post: 2707139, member: 8267&quot;]I have found a version of the same image, described as an &quot;engraving by W. Lowry, 1815, after J. D. Herbert.&quot; It includes different credits along the bottom edge of the engraving.</p><p><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Textiles;_a_stretching_machine_(%3F)._Engraving_by_W._Lowry,_1_Wellcome_V0024146.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Textiles;_a_stretching_machine_(%3F)._Engraving_by_W._Lowry,_1_Wellcome_V0024146.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Textiles;_a_stretching_machine_(?)._Engraving_by_W._Lowry,_1_Wellcome_V0024146.jpg</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Another image of textile machinery appears to come from the same source, and is described as a &quot;Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after an Illustration by J. Herbert from Abraham Rees&#039; &quot;Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary,&quot; London, 1817. </p><p><a href="https://www.alamy.com/slubbing-machine-or-billy-used-to-twist-carded-thread-in-woollen-manufacture-19th-century-copperplate-engraving-by-wilson-lowry-after-an-illustration-by-j-herbert-from-abraham-rees-cyclopedia-or-universal-dictionary-london-1817-image210593030.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.alamy.com/slubbing-machine-or-billy-used-to-twist-carded-thread-in-woollen-manufacture-19th-century-copperplate-engraving-by-wilson-lowry-after-an-illustration-by-j-herbert-from-abraham-rees-cyclopedia-or-universal-dictionary-london-1817-image210593030.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.alamy.com/slubbing-machine-or-billy-used-to-twist-carded-thread-in-woollen-manufacture-19th-century-copperplate-engraving-by-wilson-lowry-after-an-illustration-by-j-herbert-from-abraham-rees-cyclopedia-or-universal-dictionary-london-1817-image210593030.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Abraham Rees&#039; &quot;Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary&quot; was published in London in serial form between 1802 and 1820. Such general encyclopedias were popular during the 19th century, and often used and reused the same illustrations.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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