The Sense of Sight
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1750
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: At left a couple with a mirror, a couple reading from a book with magnifying and eye glasses; at right a woman looking thorugh a telescope. Surrounded by trees in landscape with houses, a tower, a bridge. Bottom margin left: "ET TERRAE, et Coeli, quid habend miracula pulchris / Haec si non oculis t anta videre queas". Center: "LA VUE / a Paris chez Daudet". Right: "Les miracles diverse de la Terre et des Cieux / Ne seroient rien poir nous s'il nous manquoit [very small] les yeux".
place: label: made in
content: France
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1921-22-291
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Brush and watercolor on paper, mounted
label: Dimensions
content: 39.5 × 57.7 cm (15 9/16 × 22 11/16 in.)