2894
LEIZEL, Balthasar Friedrich(1755 Augsburg - 1812)
2 peep-box pictures: View of the Binnenhof in The Hague | View of the Amstel in Amsterdam
2 colored copperplate engravings. Each signed in the plate.
Each mounted on paper: 35.5 x 49.5 cm.
Sideways view of the Binnenhof building complex in the center of The Hague: "Vue de Buitenhof sur de long Vyverberg. Le Quartier du Stadthoudre et la Sale à la Haye.", Sheet: 30.5 x 43.5 cm, heavy grip, damaged at the edges, water stains | Depth illusory view of the river Amstel in Amsterdam with a view of the orphanage for the poor, published by Daumont, Paris : "Vue d'optique representant", "La Maison des Orphelins et le Pont d'Amstel a Amsterdam", Sheet: 28.2 x 42 cm, heavy grip, creased and backed.
To create optical illusions, the peep-show box was a popular fairground attraction from the 2nd half of the 18th century, which presented the viewer graphics with deceptively real perspective and shaped the image of the "wide world" with views of sights, exotic scenes or theatrical representations.
Limit 40 €
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