Vue d´optique "Vue de Paking..." c. 1750-60
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3000 SEK
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Description
PEKING. ANRIQUES. "Vue de Peking capitale de la Chine, et de la superbe muraille qui la separe de la Tartarie". Engraved handcoloured "vue d´optique" by Anriques (plate size about 300x420 mm.), Paris, chez Jacques Chereau, no date (about 1750-60). In passepartout.
Löwendahl: China illustrata nova. Supplement, E 27.
Vues d´optique were engravings to be viewed through a convex lens, such that the viewer saw a reversed and seemingly three-dimensional scene.
Jacques Chéreau (1688-1776) was a printmaker and publisher of optical prints at the rue St. Jacques in Paris. After his death the business was continued by his grandson, Jacques-François Chéreau (1742-1794).
From the library of Swedish antiquarian bookdealer Björn Löwendahl (1941-2013).
Auktionsnummer:
6143
Date:
2017-11-21