5676 - 5763 FINE ARTS - OPTICAL VIEWS
- Both views sl. soiled/ stained/ w. sm. tears/ creases in blank margins; first view lower margin trimmed.
AND 7 others similar, i.a. "I.er Vuë des Boulevard pris de la Porte St. Antoine" (ibid., Mondhare, ±1770. Large waterstain in blank margins); "Decoration de Théatre, representant une Gallerie Sepulchrale" (ibid., Daumont, ±1770. Foxed in blank margins) and "L'Interieur de la Paroisse de St. Roch a Paris" (ibid., idem, ±1770. Closed tears in (blank) margins).
- A few sm. tears in blank margins.
AND 3 other (2x uncol.) optical views, i.a. "Vue Perspective de la grande Rue de S. Denis en France, et des nouvelles Casernes des Suisses" (ibid., Maillet, ±1770. Doubled).
- Small hole in right sky area.
= Spectacular fireworks on the present day Place de la Concorde, celebrating the Treaty of Paris. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LIX.
"Vue de la Porte de la Treille de l'Incendie de la Foire St. Germain à Paris, arrivé la nuit du 16 au 17 Mars 1762." Contemp. handcol. engr. optical view, engr. caption in French above and below, ibid., J.F. Chéreau, ±1795.
- Mouldstained in lower margin (sl. affecting image); 2 vague vertical creases.
AND 2 others: "Vue de la nouvelle Decoration de la Foire St. Germain" (ibid., Le Bel, ±1770. False vertical crease; stained) and "Vüe d'Optique nouvelle, representant la Foire St. Ovide, qui se tient dans la place Vendôme, a Paris" (ibid., J.F. Chéreau, 1795).
- First view frayed; 2nd view waterst. in (mostly blank) margins.
- Partly vaguely waterst. in upper half (mainly visible on verso); possibly lacks a few tiny portions.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LX.
- Trimmed within the plate mark; a few sm. tears.
AND 1 other similar publ. by the same: "Prospect der sammtlichen Gebäude des neuen Königl. Palais beij Potsdam" (ibid., ±1770. Frayed/ sl. stained).
- Trimmed within the plate mark; lower margin and upper right corner dam. = Sixt v. Kapff K 80.
- Upper right (blank) corner creased; frayed along upper margin.
= Fictional view of Rotterdam harbour.
"A View of the Exchange the South and North Blaak taken from the Gaapers Bridge". Contemp. handcol. engr. optical view, engr. caption in French above and captions in English and French below, without address, 1752.
- Waterst. in lower part.
AND 2 others similar publ. by Remondini (±1780): "Forum Argentarium Roterodami" and "Facies Portus Mosae occidentalis Roterodami" (both trimmed within the plate mark and w. restored dam. spot).
- Two (vague) oblique creases in left upper corner.
AND 1 other: "Vue du Chateau de St. Ildephonse, prise en fasce des Appartements du Roy d'Espagne" (ibid., Maillet, ±1770).
- Foxed; formerly under passepartout.
ADDED: "Mars, planetarum tertius, ejusque influentia." Contemp. handcol. engr. optical view, engr. text in French (in reverse) above and captions in Latin, French, Italian and German below, numb. "223", Augsb., G.B. Probst, ±1750 (blank margins heavily gluestained).
= Sixt v. Kapff K401.
- Trimmed within the plate mark (w. sl. loss of address); tear in lower margin, affecting captions.
= Lively view. Sixt v. Kapff K 280.
AND 1 other: "La Grande Place de Petersbourg" (Paris, Daumont, ±1770. A few sm. stains/ foxed spots).
- First view w. false vertical crease; sl. stained in upper right corner.
= Copies of two views by Probst (Sixt v. Kapff K 280 and 281).
AND 1 other similar: "Elevation Perspective de la nouvelle Place de Petersbourg suivant le projet determinée au mois de Juin 1760" (Paris, Mondhare, ±1770. Closed tear).
- Sl. creased in upper right corner; some sm. stains in left part.
= Copy of a view by Probst (Sixt v. Kapff K 282).
AND 3 others similar, i.a. "A View of the Exchange at Petersburg in Russie" (without address, 1755. Vertical crease) and "The Buiheigs [sic] of the Imperial Colleges in St. Petersburg on the Leftside And the Ware houses for Merchants on ye right" (without address, 1750. Doubled; sl. stained).
- Waterst. in left blank margin.
AND 2 others similar of St. Petersburg, publ. by Daumont and Mondhare.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LX.
"Vue de la superbe Gallerie de Petersbourg en Russie". Contemp. handcol. engr. optical view, engr. caption in French above and below, ibid., Mondhare, ±1770. - AND 1 other similar publ. by G.B. Probst: "Prospect der Käyserl. Collegien u. der Magazin der Orientalischen Kauf-Leute zu Petersburg" (Sixt v. Kapff K 280. Trimmed; sl. stained/ dam.).




























































