A series of portraits of professionals, presented through the tools of their trade in the manner of Giuseppe Arcimboldo's portraits made of vegetables, fruit and sundry objects, created two centuries earlier

The series of engravings of 1800 is called “Hieroglyphs”, a reference to the general excitement that followed the discovery of the Rosetta Stone by Napoleon's troops in 1799. True, the reference betrays a naive understanding of hieroglyphs as the mere reproduction of certain concepts and phenomena by means of objects