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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 Friedrich Leizelt: " The Old Sea=Harbour at Toulon [...]" | "Vue de la Maison de Nothumberland à Charing Cross de Londres" | "The Entrance into the Sea Harbour at Marseilles [...]" | "Vue du Pont de Westminster du Côte du Nord de Londres." | "The Port of Marseille [...]" | "The Port of Marseille [...]" | "The Entrance to the Maritime Port of Marseille [...]" | "Vue de Londres sur du côte du Sud-Est depuis la Tour jusqu au Pont de Londres." | "Vue de l'Hôtel du Lord Maire qui comprend la Facade, et le Côté Occidental de Londres." | "The second part of the town and rhede or anchor place of Toulon." | "The first part of the city and Rhede or the Ancker place to Toulon." | Georg Balthasar Probst: "Vue de l'Est du Pont et Nouvel-Arsenal de Kingiston sur l'Hull" | "Vue de l'Ouest du Nouvel-Arsenal de Kingiston sur l'Hull." | Unsigned: "Aspectus Hortoru. Domini Hamillon versus pontem Tamesis prope Londinum.". Each with heavier water damage, heavily foxed, grip-marked, creased, edges cracked.
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 09:26 uhr
• Calling time: 28. | Oct 2021 | approximately 09:26 uhr
Hammer price 360.00 €
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