Vue d'optique - Vue de la fontaine des eaux chaudes et de la place d'Aix la Chapelle.
Chez Jacques Chereau|Paris [circa 1790]|30.50 x 48.50 cm|une feuille
Original engraving. Optical view heightened in watercolor, depicting a view of the hot springs fountain and the square of Aix-la-Chapelle.
Optical views, also called views, perspectives or "mondo nuovo," are engravings that were very fashionable between the late 18th and early 19th centuries. They were intended to be observed through a system of multiple mirrors or by means of a Zograscope, an instrument consisting of a mirror and a lens. Optical views can be considered the precursors of three-dimensional images and stereoscopes which enjoyed great success from the 19th century onward. Optical views appear to have emerged in the 1740s and were drawing room entertainments. The process d
Optical views, also called views, perspectives or "mondo nuovo," are engravings that were very fashionable between the late 18th and early 19th centuries. They were intended to be observed through a system of multiple mirrors or by means of a Zograscope, an instrument consisting of a mirror and a lens. Optical views can be considered the precursors of three-dimensional images and stereoscopes which enjoyed great success from the 19th century onward. Optical views appear to have emerged in the 1740s and were drawing room entertainments. The process d
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