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Oldest picture showing eyeglasses
PHOTOGRAPHIC EQUIPMENT AND CAMERAS
lantern slide
National Council for the Preservation of Eyesight
Europe: United Kingdom, England, London, WC2
c.1930s
glass; cardboard
overall: 82 mm x 82 mm

Glass lantern slide no 72, depicting a black and white photograph reproducing a 14th c. (1352) fresco painting by Tommaso da Modena of Cardinal Ugo di Provenza (Hugo of Provence) wearing rivet nose spectacles, from the chapter house of the basilica church of Treviso, Italy. Caption applied in white painted handwriting.


1998.138

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