Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Fabrica

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

FAB'RICA. In general, the workshop of any mechanic who works in hard materials, but especially in wood; as the shop of a carpenter, or a cabinet maker. (Terent. Ad. iv. 2. 45. Lucret. iv. 515.) The illustration (Fabrica/1.1) represents a carpenter's shop, from a painting found at Herculaneum, in which the workmen are represented under the form of genii, pursuant to the usual treatment of the ancient schools, for subjects of this nature, in which scenes of ordinary life are depicted.

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  Fabrica/1.1