WIEN AUSTRIA 1780 BASSET ANTIQUE ENGRAVED OPTICAL VIEW

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Double your traffic. 91e Vue Generalle de la Ville de Vienne . Striking and beautifully detailed copper engraved optical view of Wien, Austria. Printed area size approx.: cm 41,1 x 29,8 Paper size approx.: cm 50,1 x 33,8 Very strong a nd dark impression on very strong paper. Paper with chains. Original colors. Wide margins. Tears along left lateral margin. Paper browned. Conditions are as you can see in the images. Cartographer: 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. In the 18th century the optical print or vue optique came into existence, whose exaggerated converging lines were intended to produce the optical illusion of deep recession. The viewing devices for which these perspective prints were produced consisted of a lens and a mirror, this requiring the use of reversed or mirror-image pictures. View My Feedback View My Other Items For Sale Visit my eBay Store All of the maps we sell are ORIGINALS. We guarantee all of our maps to be authentic. We do our best to describe the condition of our maps as accurately as possible. Due to the age and type of paper, some imperfections are to be expected. Please examine the images provided carefully, and if you have read more

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