Print Description
‘De haven van Hoorn. Le port de Hoorn.’
Etching / engraving, hand coloured on hand laid (verge) paper.
Sheet size: 42 x 32,5 cm. (16,5 x 12,8 inch). Image size: 40,5 x 32 cm. (15,9 x 12,6 inch).
This attractive print was published around 1785. This is an optical print, also called ?vue optique? or ?vue d?optique?, which were made to be viewed through a Zograscope, or other devices of convex lens and mirrors, all of which produced an optical illusion of depth.
Made by ‘Anonymous’ after own design. Publisher: 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. Johann Balthasar Probst (1673-1748) was an engraver and publisher in Augsburg, Germany. Son-in-law of Jeremias Wolff whose plates he inherited in 1724, father of George Balthasar Probst, his successor.
Condition: Good, given age. Light soiling. Trimmed to image. Several printer’s creases. Paper loss at right middle. Paper edges with dog ears, some holes from old attachments and small tears. Attached to cardboard. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
Keywords: OPTICAL PRINT-HOORN-HARBOUR-NORTHERN NETHERLANDS-CITY-MILLS-CHURCHES-HOUSES -SHIPS-BOATS
RBOS-T.20-Large
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