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James Mann Trade Card
REPRODUCTION IMAGES COLLECTION
trade card
Mann, James
Europe: United Kingdom, England
1980s
paper
overall: 213 x 144 mm

Modern photographic reproduction of 18th c. (c.1740s) 'trade card' (in fact a composite photograph depicting two originally separate printed elements). Features two pairs of nose spectacles beside a portrait oval of Sir Isaac Newton, flanked by two putti, the left of whom is carrying a telescope. Two columns of text concerning Crystal Spectacles, reflecting telescopes, microscopes, prisms and other optical instruments, also 'Refracting Telescopes Improved', equal to those made by Pietro Patrone at Milan.


2001.192

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