Die vier Jahrszeiten oder neues Brillenspiel (The Four Seasons or the New
Game of Spectacles), made by anonymous, German, Published in Nuremberg,
game-board with 12 pictorial compartments arranged in a square, showing
various figures and buildings, with a larger central compartment showing
Time. Accompanied by a letterpress rule sheet in French and German,
everything is in a slip case. Hand-coloured etching, Lettered with title and
descriptions of each square. Given by: Lady Charlotte Schreiber, The British
Museum, London |
Louis XV Gold-mounted red lacquered scissors-glasses, by Francois Chevance,
Paris, 1782, S J Phillips, London |
A woman wearing glasses, ca. 1675, Arzneibuch. Compendium of popular
medicine and surgery, receipts, etc., in German. Compiled for the use of a
House of the Franciscan Order, probably in Austria, or South Germany.
Archives and Manuscript Collection of the Wellcome Library, London, WMS990,
Wellcome Images Medical Photographic Library |
Binocular Reading Glass, brass & wood, with lorgnette type handle, Smith
Beck & Beck, London, 1862 |
Jean Joseph Vaudechamp (1790-1866), Madame Antoine Julien Meffre-Rouzan (neé
Marie Alix Olivier de Vezin), 1839, Oil on canvas, 46 x 35 ˝ inches,
Louisiana State Museum, Gift of the Estate of Mrs. Paul Brierre, 11427.002 |
