Eyeglasses Offered in a Public Market circa 1600

An early engraving (c. 1600) showing Eyeglasses Offered in a Public Market

This print shows a marketplace with a spectacle maker, a shoemaker, and a scribe at their stands as people shop.

Title: Conspicilla Inuenta conspicilla sunt, quae luminum, obscuriores detegunt caligines

Hans Collaert, ~1530-1581, engraver

Jan van der Straet, 1523-1605, artist

Philippe Galle, 1537-1612, printer

Courtesy of the Getty Center

Library of Congress link: https://www.loc.gov/item/2014647519/