Optical view - [Mascarade, interior of 18th century ballroom] Vorstellung eines masquirten Ball. Representation d'une Mascarade. [...and text in Italian and Latin]. Med. Folio No. 35. Augsburg, Georg Balthasar Probst, ca. 1780. Oblong large folio. ca. 46.5 x 36 cm.
Engraved optical view of a mascarade, a lively scene of dancing fancy dressed people in a ball room with an orchestra playing music, finely coloured by hand, with caption in reverse "Vue d'une Mascarade' and described in four languages underneath, engraved on the copperplate, numbered in upper right corner "132".
Fine optical print of a mascarade, engraved and published by George Balthasar Probst, active in Augsburg in the second half of the 18th century. Optical prints were used for unaided viewing, as well as with a viewing machine such as the zograscope or the more fanciful perspective boxes and peepshows. The prints could also be transformed by means of pinpricking and used with the aid of backlighting. Sm. tears in outer wide margins. A beautiful coloured copy of a rare subject.
Cf. Balzer, Peepshows, p. 32.
€ 450.00 item: 5935
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