Maker: van de Venne, Adriaen

Year: 1623

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Collection: van de Venne, Jan Pieters. Zeevsche Nachtegael ende Des selfs dryderley gesang

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Sources:

H. J. Zuidervaart & L. Nellissen, De echte uitvinder van de verrekijker (Middelburg, 2008), pg. 42, figure 17.

Louwman, P.J.K., and Zuidervaart, H.J., "A Certain Instrument for Seeing Far: Four Centuries of Styling the Telescope Illustrated by a Selection of Treasures from the Louwman Collection of Historic Telescopes". Wasscnaar, 2013. 22.

van de Venne, Jan Pieters. "Zeevche Nachtegael ende Des selfs dryderley gesang: Cupido Brille-Man". Poet: Jacob Cats. Middelburg. 1623.

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Cupid holds a refracting telescope to his eye to survey a distant landscape. Earliest Dutch image of a telescope. "Emblematic illustration of the telescope, accompanying the poem
Cupido Brille-Man [Cupid using glasses] by the well-known Dutch poet
Jacob Cats. Next to Cupid, the goddess Venus is looking into the distance.
The deceptive optical effect of the telescope is used in this picture as a
symbol of the common occurrence of human deception in matters of love.
From: Zeevsche Nachtegael ende Des selfs dryderley gesang [‘The Zeeland
Nightingale and its song, in three tunes’]" (Louwman and Zuidervaart 2013).

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