The Optical Viewer
c. 1793
Image: 54.7 x 45.1 cm (21 9/16 x 17 3/4 in.); Platemark: 67.5 x 53.3 cm (26 9/16 x 21 in.); Sheet: 72.4 x 54.2 cm (28 1/2 x 21 5/16 in.)
Source image
https://clevelandart.org/art/2001.15
In this print, a fashionable woman and a boy look at prints through an optical viewer known as a “zograscope.” This form of entertainment, popularized during the 1700s, was equipped with a concave lens that made images appear three-dimensionally. Special prints called vues d’o...
Drawing
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accession
2001.15
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Terms
Culture
France, 18th century
Technique
Chalk-manner etching and engraving
Genre
Print
Department
Prints
Relations
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