M0004564: Conspicilla, seller of spectacles

A reproduction of a photograph of an engraving titled "Conspicilla", seller of spectacles, from Jan Van Der Straet's Nova Reperta (Antwerp, c.1600). Published by Phillip Galle. The engraving shows a market area, with the spectacle seller on the left, and various members of the public all wearing a pair.

3 March 1936

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2021.

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