LA GRÁFICA DEL CONTRABANDO. LOS DIBUJOS DE ESPIONAJE INDUSTRIAL FRANCÉS COMO MEDIO PARA LA RECUPERACIÓN DEL PATRIMONIO TRASHUMANTE DESAPARECIDO.

This article analyses the drawings made by the French spies and envoys who visited Spain at the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century with the intention of knowing and radiography the infrastructures associated with the treatment and washing of transhumant wool. The ultimate objective of these prospections was to transmit their operation and define its architecture as a means to replicate these archetypes in their own territory once plundered and finished with the Spanish wool monopoly. Through the located documentation we expose the itineraries that were carried out, the objects analysed and the main contributions of their drawings, which respond to the spirit of representation proposed by the French illustration. Based on these documentary sources, the only visual sample of the disappeared wool industrial heritage, the graphic reconstruction of one of the spied complexes is proposed in order to recover this unique heritage and promote its value and conservation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]