This series of pencil-on-paper sketches was drawn by Adolph Menzel (1815–1905) in the first half of the 1870s. They are studies for one (or perhaps two) of the workers who are taking a work-break to eat in the lower right corner of Menzel’s Iron Rolling Mill of 1875. In each of the six images here, Menzel has taken a different angle or distance from his subject. He appears to have wanted to sketch as precisely as possible the gestures of the right arm, wrist, and hand of the worker as well as the lean of his upper body.