Man in plain robe with cape on the left and woman with bare torso in leather apron on the right, standing opposite each other on a high pedestal decorated with the imperial eagle coat of arms, the woman rests her hands on the long handle of a sledgehammer, behind her is an anvil a cogwheel on her feet, the man is writing in a book with a quill in his right hand while pointing to the woman with his left hand, two more books are leaning on the base below, in the background the plant of a factory with smoking chimneys against the rising sun.