A four-page set of illustrations depicting Joseph Marie Jacquard, inventor of the Jacquard loom attachment. It includes two engraved portraits, a photographic plate of his statue in a public square in Lyons, and a grid of nine portraits and likenesses in various media (engravings, lithograph, bust, medallion). Captions give his birth at Lyons on 7 July 1752 and, on the last page, his death at Oullins on 7 August 1834.