Le Marchand de Lunettes
Engraved by I. St. Helmann, 1776, after a painting by Jean Baptiste Le Prince of 1773, this print depicts the buyer being cuckolded by the telescope seller while he looks through one of the telescopes on sale. This was a common image that linked the idea of the virtuoso distracted from earthly goings on by his other-worldly pursuits with the evident phallic possibilities of the telescope. A similar image was produced in the early nineteenth century by Thomas Rowlandson (see ZBA4569).
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Object Details
ID: | ZBA4477 |
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Collection: | Fine art |
Type: | |
Display location: | Not on display |
Creator: | Helman, Isadore Stanislas; Prince, Jean Baptiste Le |
Date made: | 1776 |
Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
Measurements: | Sheet: 486 x 356 mm |
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