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Inside View of the Public Library, Cambridge
POSTCARDS
postcard
Rowlandson, Thomas
Europe: United Kingdom, England, Cambridgeshire, Cambridge
2002
paper
overall: 105 x 146 mm

Colour souvenir postcard reproducing the satirical picture by Rowlandson (c.1809) of the Public Library in Cambridge. Various characters are using spectacles including at least three readers wearing them, one holding them in the hand and one (in bottom left corner) who has let his spectacles drop to the floor.


2003.45

Gift of Mr Frank Barraclough FCOptom, 2002



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