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Boston – Vue de la Rue grande vers l’Eglise du Sud des Presbiteriennes a Boston

by Francois Habermann

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Date of this view: ca. 1770, Augsburg

Dimensions (not including margins): 25,5 x 39, cm

Condition: excellent. Sharp copper engraving. Vivid Original colouring. Wide margins. Minor repair work bottom, professionally executed.

Condition rating: A+

Verso: blanc

Item number:: 56005
Region:: The Americas
North America
Optica prints
Categories:: Recent Additions

Price (without VAT, possibly to be added): €600,00 (FYI +/- $666,00 / £534,00)

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Optica print of Boston

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there were many popular specialty establishments in Paris, Augsburg and London which produced optical viewing devices and special engravings to be viewed through them. In the 18th century the optical print or vue optique came into existence, whose exaggerated converging lines were intended to produce the optical illusion of deep recession. The viewing devices for which these perspective prints were produced consisted of a lens and a mirror, this requiring the use of reversed or mirror-image pictures.