Optical-Antique Print-LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE-Daumont-ca 1770

Description

This optical print shows a view on the Royal Stock Exchange of England in London, with many traders on the floor. 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 an anonymous engraver after Daumont.

Medium: Etching / engraving on hand laid (verge) paper.

Sheet size: 41.7 x 28.3 cm (16.42 x 11.14 inch). Image size: 40.8 x 25.5 cm. (16.06 x 10.04 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Vertical fold and one in corner. Large tear restored with newspaper. Two small tears restord. Smudges on reverse. Small margin. Brown stains in left. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

EXCHANGE-MONEY-STOCKS-GREAT BRITAIN-UK-ENGLAND-TRADER | RBOS-A9-21

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

This attractive optical print was published in Paris by Daumont ca 1770.

Biography artist: 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.