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14 peep-box pictures
14 colored copper engravings. Each signed in the plate.
Max. 36 x 49 cm.
14 peep-box pictures with different subjects - Balthasar Sigmund Setlezky: "The Hearing. The Regulus sent back from Carthage before the Roman Senate" | Unsigned: "Prospect in Leipzig from the St. Niclaus Church against the Grimmische Thor" | "The Castle or Castell at Leipzig, called the Pleißenburgh, as such to be seen against the West." | Johann Anton Riedel: "Prospect of the Common Buildings of the New Royal Palace at Potsdam" | "Prospect of the Monastery Street along with the Cathedral Tower of the Cathedral Church in Berlin". | Prospect of the Waysenhaus in Berlin, together with the area around the Stralower Thor. | Prospect of the Wall Street along with the Heil. Dreyfaltigkeits Kirche in Berlin." | Georg Balthasar Probst: "How to endure and drive back the runaways." | "The Opening of the Trenches." | "The fortress is given up for plunder." | "The assault of two bastions after the breaches made by the miners." | Balthasar Friedrich Leizelt: "Vue de L'Attaque près du Chateau de Lemnos, qui Capitula le 4. 8bre 1770" | "Vue de la Ruine et de L'Embrasement des Flottes Turques dans le Port de Cismin le 7. Juillet 1770" | "Vue de L'Action près de Patasso, ou L'Escadre des Dulcignottes fut battue et brulèe le 5. 9bre 1772.". Each with heavier water damage, heavily foxed, grip-marked, creased, edges torn.
To create optical illusions, the peep-box was a popular fairground attraction from the 2nd half of the 18th century, which presented the viewer with graphics with deceptively real perspective and shaped the image of the "wide world" with views of sights, exotic scenes or theatrical representations.
Limit 300 €
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• Calling time: 28. | Oct 2021 | approximately 09:25 uhr
• Calling time: 28. | Oct 2021 | approximately 09:25 uhr
Hammer price 360.00 €
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