Antique Optical Print-SAINT PAULS CHURCH-ROME-INTERIOR-Fonbonne-Daumont-1770

Subject: Plate : 'Prospectus Interior Ecclesice St. Pauli in Roma / Vue d'optique - L'interieur de Saint Paul de Rome.' This optical print shows a view of the interior of St. Pauls Church in Rome, Italy

Condition: Good. General age-related toning and staining / soiling from handling as visible on image. Small tear left margin just outside the image; repaired. Please study scan carefully.

Medium: Engraving / etching on a verge type of hand-laid paper with original hand colouring.

Size (in cm): The overall size is ca. 47 x 32 cm. The image size is ca. 41 x 25 cm.

Size (in inch): The overall size is ca. 18.5 x 12.6 inch. The image size is ca. 16.1 x 9.8 inch.

Part Number: 40865

Location: DP-E2-15

Description: Original antique print published in Paris by Daumont ca. 1770. This is an optical print, also called 'vue optique' or 'vue d'optique', which were made to be viewed through a Zograscope, or other devices of convex lens and mirrors, all of which produced an optical illusion of depth.

Artists and Engravers: Anne Fonbonne, engraver (act.1742-1754). Daumont was a well-known publisher of optical prints, established in Paris. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries there were many popular speciality establishments in Paris, Augsburg and London which produced optical viewing devices and special engravings to be viewed through them.