Description

Poster – Old Professions – Plate 15. This plate illustrates exchanges being made in a market square. One market stall is selling glasses and lenses, to the right is a bookseller and behind him a woman sewing. In an everday setting the optician (indicated by his trade banner) dispenses ready-made spectacles and magnifiers. To the right of the stall a prospective buyer is trying on a pair of glasses. Stradanus demonstrates that all sectors of society, both high and low, can benefit from discovery. Most of the people in the scene wear glasses and in the background a blind man and is guide dog are depicted. One of the most humorous of the prints in the Nova Reperta, it shows that the series could be appreciated on many different levels.

Print on 100% cotton paper.

Size DinA4