5733 - 5857 FINE ARTS - OPTICAL VIEWS
- A few light brown stains in lower part.
"81e Vuë perspective de la grande rue de Nanquin ancienne Ville de la Chine." Contemp. handcol. engr. optical view, ibid., Daumont, ±1770 (fine).
- A few creases/ sm. tears in right and lower blank margins.
- Contemp. manuscript caption in Dutch below; some sm. stains and closed marginal tears.
ADDED: "Prospectus Cameratae Vineae in Hortis Gubernatoris Pondicherii (...)" (without address, ±1770).
- Small hole in left upper part of image; rubbed spot in caption in lower left corner. = Nice view.
- A few sm. tears in blank margins (1x affecting image).
= Fictitious view, inspired by J.B. Labat's description of the snake cult in the West African kingdom of Whydah (Voyage du chevalier des Marchais en Guinée, isles voisines, et a Cayenne (Amst., 1731)).
- Trimmed to the border line.
AND 3 others, i.a. "The Entrance into the Temple of the Sun in Palmira from the East" (London, R. Sayer, 1756. Trimmed to/ inside the platemark; mounted).
- Tear of 4 cm. in (sl. foxed) upper blank margin.
"Mithridat in seinem Pallast spazierend. Mithridates obambulans in Palatio (...)". Handcol. engr. optical view by and after the same, engr. captions in German, Latin, Italian and French below, numb. "NIII n.33", ibid., idem, ±1770 (fine).
- A few foxed spots; one part of paper backing damaged. = Delicately cut and with some refined drawings.
- A few vague creases; contemp. manuscript numbering above and caption in Dutch below.
= Possibly after an engraving by Jean Audran (after Claude Gillot).
- Sl. yellowed and creased in blank margins, otherwise fine.
- Both prints w. vague oblique crease(s). Attractive views of the Tophane ("Armoury") quarter.
- Creased (mostly in upper right corner of image); a few sm. (closed) marginal tears.
- Margins strengthened/ restored; some closed tears (4x affecting image).
"Vue d'une Maison de Plaisance du Grand Seigneur à Constantinople." Contemp. handcol. engr. optical view, engr. caption in French above and below, ibid., J.F. Chéreau, ±1795.
- Stained in (blank) margins.
AND 1 other similar.
- Slightly foxed. = Attractive view. Sixt v. Kapff K 42.
- Creased in lower blank margin. A fine view.
- Slightly creased.
- Some foxing and contemp. annots. in blank margins.
"Vue Perspective des Illuminations de la ruë de la Feronnerie du côté de la ruë St. Denis a Paris à l'Occasion de l'heureuse Convalescence de Sa Majesté en 1745." Contemp. handcol. engr. optical view, w. black painted borders, ibid., Daumont, ±1770.
- Doubled; print identified in contemp. hand on verso.
AND 1 other: "Vue perspective de la Ville et du Pont de Rouen" (ibid., Basset. ±1790).
- Second print waterst. in lower blank margin.
= The first print depicting i.a. a game of soccer ("calcio"). Rare prints.