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Women grind glass lenses while two customers try spectacles on. Coloured line engraving, 1799?.
Wellcome Collection

Women grind glass lenses while two customers try spectacles on. Coloured line engraving, 1799?.

Unknown artist

CC0 — Public Domain
Wellcome Collection

Lettering: Conspicilla. Debilitati oculi si vis succurrere cautus, conspicilla pares, hic dabit usus opem, Praeservant etiam visum, quem viribus augent, Grataqz praesertim lumina sunt senibus. ...

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