I don’t get it. It sounds like you are claiming the article image is not AI slop, but rather an old print. But then you link to something that isn’t even remotely like the article image.
There's lots of similar images on the internet, this image on Alamy claims to scanned from a Victorian mechanical‑engineering book of the 1880s
https://www.alamy.com/an-old-engraving-showing-the-british-f...
/e: this is likely not the illustration you were referring to I realize now.