Optical Antique Print-SIEGE BARCELONA-NO 309-Probst-1770

Description

Contemporary hand-coloured copperplate engraving on hand-laid paper. on paper.

Size in cm: The overall size is ca. 45 x 33 cm. The image size is ca. 43 x 30.8 cm. Size in inch: The overall size is ca. 17.7 x 13 inch. The image size is ca. 16.9 x 12.1 inch.

Antique print, titled: ‘Eruptiones sustendae et propellendae. – Comment l’on soutient et repousse les sorties.’ – (How fallout attacks are withstood and pushed back.) This print shows Barcelona’s siege in 1713-14. The Siege of Barcelona was a battle at the end of the War of Spanish Succession, which had Archduke Charles of Austria, holding Barcelona, (backed by Britain and the Netherlands, i.e. the Grand Alliance), against Philip V of Spain, backed by France, in a contest for the Spanish crown. Original antique print published by Georg Balthasar Probst, published ca. 1770. 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. Artists and Engravers: Made by ‘Georg Matthaus Probst’ after an anonymous artist. Georg Matthaus Probst (d. 1788) was an engraver from Augsburg, Germany, son of Georg Balthazar Probst. 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 de optique, which were published in various places during the last half of the 18th century, including Paris, Augsburg and London.

Condition: Good, given age. Some staining in margins. Image very nice. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

Keywords: OPTICAL ANTIQUE PRINT-SIEGE BARCELONA-NO 309-PROBST

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