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Nothing but a Gross of Paltry Green Spectacles (scene from Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield)
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print
Europe: United Kingdom
20th c.
paper
overall: 160 x 200 mm

Modern photographic reproduction, monochrome, of a 19th c. print illustrating a scene from Goldsmith's novel 'The Vicar of Wakefield' (1766). Depicts a young man returned from market, in a domestic parlour where the family is inspecting the spectacles he has brought. The father is holding a lens hinged to a handle-cum-case. Mounted on card, with pencil instructions for printing.


2001.61

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