5733 - 5857 FINE ARTS - OPTICAL VIEWS
- Blank corners sl. foxed/ creased.
AND 1 other similar: "Vue d'Optique Représentant Un Lac et Village de la Cochinchine" (ibid., Basset, ±1790. Sl. creased and soiled/ stained).
- Slightly yellowed in blank margins.
- Contemp. manuscr. number in pen and ink in upper blank margin. Fine.
= Very rare view, identical to but considerably larger than the engraving made by SALLIETH for the Atlas van alle de Zee-Havens der Bataafsche Republiek. Sixt v. Kapff K255a.
"Delfs haven." Contemp. handcol. engr. optical view, engr. Dutch and French captions below, ibid., idem, ±1780.
- Contemp. manuscript number in pen and ink in upper blank margin; stained in right half of the image.
= Sixt v. Kapff K 201.
- Upper part of the engraving cut off.
- Margins soiled/ (water)stained; first 2 prints w. sm. closed tears in (blank) margins.
= Ingalls 149-151. Copies in reverse of 3 prints (from a series of 4) published by Probst around 1730 showing the Greenland whaling fleet (cf. Sixt v. Kapff K 412-414; Ingalls 145-147).