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REPRODUCTION IMAGES COLLECTION
picture
Stradanus, Joannes; Collaert, Ioan; Galle, Philipp; J. C. Krohn & Son AS
Europe: Norway, Bergen
c.1950s
paper; cardboard
overall: 174 x 228 mm
1999.775
REPRODUCTION IMAGES COLLECTION
picture
Stradanus, Joannes; Collaert, Ioan; Galle, Philipp; J. C. Krohn & Son AS
Europe: Norway, Bergen
c.1950s
paper; cardboard
overall: 174 x 228 mm
Modern photographic reproduction (monochrome) of a 16th c. (c.1590s) Netherlandish print (engraving) depicting a street of market stalls including a spectacle seller and other persons wearing nose spectacles. Accompanying Latin text (Trans. 'Spectacles have been invented which obscure darkness'). Pasted on board with the stamp of a Norwegian optical practice on the reverse.
1999.775