Suite of Twenty French 18th-Century Hand-Colored Vue d’Optique Etchings
$6,400.00
SKU: 1271-8
Dimension: 16"H x 22.5"W x .63"D
Dimensions: Frame -16″H x 22-1/2″W x 5/8″D
A Suite of twenty hand-colored Vue d’Optique etchings, depicting various cityscapes and interior views of European cities. Some included are the Royal Palace of Hampton Court, Ruspoli Palace of Rome, The Royal Prison of Madrid, St. James Park Canal of London, and the Palace of Versailles. The legends are located in the lower margins. Publishers vary. Each matted and presented in an ebonized line-frame en suite. Available for individual purchase for $320.00 each.
Perspective views or vues d’optiques, are a special type of popular print published in Europe during the eighteenth century. These prints were a form of entertainment meant to be seen through devices called “optical machines,” “optiques,” “zograscopes” or “peepshows.” The prints were exhibited by traveling showmen in the streets throughout Europe and also were collected by those in the professional and upper classes who had the optical machines at home. There was a great curiosity about European cities and exotic locations in the further reaches of the globe, and these prints were one of the only ways the general public could get a look at the wider world. While some of these prints are based on first-hand drawings, others are strictly imaginary or at least untruthful. The artists who etched them usually copied other prints or paintings and were quite unabashed in their willingness to take a beautiful, unnamed harbor from a painting by Claude Lorraine and call it, for example, Rotterdam.
The optical machines used for these prints had a lens which enhanced for viewers the magnification and perception of three-dimensional depth of the scenes depicted. A mirror was often used so that the perspective prints could be viewed when laid flat, and in these cases the images were viewed in reverse. It is therefore not unusual that the scenes shown were drawn in reverse, and there is also often a title printed in reverse along the top, allowing the viewers to quickly read the title. There was usually further text at the bottom of the prints, often in several language, which could be read by the operator of the optique for the benefit of his audience. The most characteristic feature of the perspective views is their emphasized linear perspective, done to further intensify the enhanced appearance of depth and illusionistic space in the prints when viewed through an optique. Another attribute of these prints is their bright, often crude hand coloring, applied boldly so to show the tints when viewed through the lens. The prints usually have a series of colors, such as blue, pink and yellow, crossing in bands from side to side, with bright highlights often including red. These cheerful and colorful images, with their fascinating history and peculiar appearance, make for unusual and appealing eighteenth-century prints. Reference: “History and Nature of Perspective Views or Vues d’Optique.” The Philadelphia Print Shop, Ltd. www.philaprintshop.com/perspect.html. Accessed March 5, 2019.
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A Suite of twenty hand-colored Vue d’Optique etchings, depicting various cityscapes and interior views of European cities. Some included are the Royal Palace of Hampton Court, Ruspoli Palace of Rome, The Royal Prison of Madrid, St. James Park Canal of London, and the Palace of Versailles. The legends are located in the lower margins. Publishers vary. Each matted and presented in an ebonized line-frame en suite. Available for individual purchase for $320.00 each.
Perspective views or vues d’optiques, are a special type of popular print published in Europe during the eighteenth century. These prints were a form of entertainment meant to be seen through devices called “optical machines,” “optiques,” “zograscopes” or “peepshows.” The prints were exhibited by traveling showmen in the streets throughout Europe and also were collected by those in the professional and upper classes who had the optical machines at home. There was a great curiosity about European cities and exotic locations in the further reaches of the globe, and these prints were one of the only ways the general public could get a look at the wider world. While some of these prints are based on first-hand drawings, others are strictly imaginary or at least untruthful. The artists who etched them usually copied other prints or paintings and were quite unabashed in their willingness to take a beautiful, unnamed harbor from a painting by Claude Lorraine and call it, for example, Rotterdam.
The optical machines used for these prints had a lens which enhanced for viewers the magnification and perception of three-dimensional depth of the scenes depicted. A mirror was often used so that the perspective prints could be viewed when laid flat, and in these cases the images were viewed in reverse. It is therefore not unusual that the scenes shown were drawn in reverse, and there is also often a title printed in reverse along the top, allowing the viewers to quickly read the title. There was usually further text at the bottom of the prints, often in several language, which could be read by the operator of the optique for the benefit of his audience. The most characteristic feature of the perspective views is their emphasized linear perspective, done to further intensify the enhanced appearance of depth and illusionistic space in the prints when viewed through an optique. Another attribute of these prints is their bright, often crude hand coloring, applied boldly so to show the tints when viewed through the lens. The prints usually have a series of colors, such as blue, pink and yellow, crossing in bands from side to side, with bright highlights often including red. These cheerful and colorful images, with their fascinating history and peculiar appearance, make for unusual and appealing eighteenth-century prints. Reference: “History and Nature of Perspective Views or Vues d’Optique.” The Philadelphia Print Shop, Ltd. www.philaprintshop.com/perspect.html. Accessed March 5, 2019.
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