Print Description
This optical print shows a walking people in a beautiful garden with high hedges, sculptures and fountains.
Made by Georg Balthasar Probst after G.G. Winkler.
Medium: Engraving, handcoloured on handlaid (verge) paper.
Sheet size: 45 x 33.5 cm (17.72 x 13.19 inch). Image size: 40.5 x 30 cm. (15.94 x 11.81 inch).
Condition: good, given age. Mounted on cardboard. Text in Dutch with pencil in lower margin. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
GARDEN-PEOPLE WALKING-FOUNTAINS-HEDGES-SCULPTURES | RBOS-T32-LARGE
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
This attractive optical print (vue d’optique) was published ca 1760 in Augsburg, Germany.
Biography engraver: Georg Balthasar Probst (1732 ? 1801) was a German artist, engraver and publisher in Augsburg, a major European publishing center in the 17th and 18th centuries. He produced architectural views of places around the world, including vues d?optique, which were published in various places during the last half of the 18th century, including Paris, Augsburg and London.
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