A Vanitas Still-Life, Simon Renard de Saint-Andre (1613-1677), oil on
canvas, 15 x 18 in., Bernheimer Fine Old Masters, Munich, Germany, (notice
the Nuremburg single wire spectacles) |
6 lens spectacles, combination of the first (Addison-Smith) and second
(Richardson) spectacles patents, American Optical, UNIQUE |
Nicholas of Roen, painted by Tomasso de Modena, 1352, (first painting to
show magnifier), Chapter House of the Dominican Monastery attached to the
Basilica of San Niccolõ in Treviso, Italy |
A small Galilean monocular telescope used by Napoleon, made in London, after
the Battle of Waterloo it was taken from his coach as booty by Wellington,
Carl Zeiss Optical Museum, Oberkochen, Germany |
Spectacle Peddler, Andries Both (1612-1641), oil on wood, 35 x 44 cm,
German, copyright Dorotheum Auctions, sold 9/29/04 |
