Print Description
‘Vue du Quirinal ou palais du pape sur le montagne Cavallo a Rome.’
Etching / engraving, hand coloured on hand laid (verge) paper.
Sheet size: 42 x 31,5 cm. (16,5 x 12,4 inch). Image size: 41 x 31 cm. (16,1 x 12,2 inch).
This attractive print was published around 1760 by Jean-Fran?ois Daumont, in Paris. Daumont was a well-known publisher of optical prints, established in Paris. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there were many popular speciality establishments in Paris, Augsburg and London which produced optical viewing devices and special engravings to be viewed through them. 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.
Condition: Good, given age. Light soiling. Trimmed to image. Attached to cardboard. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
Keywords: OPTICAL PRINT-ROME-ITALY-PALACE QUIRINAL-HOUSE OF POPE-PROCESSION-SEDAN CHAIR-MONKS PRAYING
RBOS-T.20-Large
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