Jean Valette-Penot (1710-1777), Nature morte en trompe l'oeil, oil painting
on canvas, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Strasbourg, photo by M. Bertola |
Briggs Patent Electromagnetic Glasses, Courtesy of the Waring Historical
Library, MUSC, Charleston, SC, unusual. Patent #443160, Date 12/23/90 |
Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827), James Peale (The Lamplight Portrait),
1822, American, oil on canvas, courtesy of The Detroit Institute of Arts;
Founders Society purchase with funds from Dexter M. Ferry, Jr. Photograph
©1990 The Detroit Institute of Arts. |
Gordan & Peckham patent glasses, dated 1849, notice the inner tube fitting
in the outer hollow tube, thereby creating adjustable sidearms, Optical
Heritage Museum This was actually the J.J.Loe patent #6315 of 1849. Gordan &
Peckham then improved upon that in 1860. |
Twelve-year-old Jesus Among the Scholars in the Temple, Friedrich Herlin,
1462. City Museum (Stadtmuseum), Nördlingen, Germany |
