Subject: gentleman officer
Culture: Colonial-Revolutionary Anglo-American
Setting: 13 Colonies, American Revolution, North America 18thc
Object: spectacles / eyeglasses
* Williamsburg Clothiers of Virginia
* Old State House Museum
"Gawen Brown Spectacles c. 1740 Glass, iron ...
These spectacles were worn by Gawen Brown, a clock and watchmaker, whose shop was on King Street in the 18th century. Brown was one of the few clockmakers in pre-Revolutionary Massachusetts, as most clocks were imported from England. ..."
Virginia Historical Society *
"Patrick Henry's spectacles, perhaps the very ones shown pushed up over his brow in the portrait above." ...
Yorktown Victory Center *
"Spectacles, British, c. 1750, iron and glass. On September 18, 1777, while in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Patten wrote in his diary, 'I bot a pair of specticles for which i paid a Dollar..."
