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Early depiction of a "Dutch telescope" by Adriaen van de Venne — VisualArtsDB

Early depiction of a "Dutch telescope"

Early depiction of a "Dutch telescope"

Adriaen van de Venne

1624

Genre: Genre painting

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instruments-and-mechanisms

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