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Geelong – 1889

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‘Geelong’

A page from The Illustrated London News

5th January 1889

40 cm x 27 cm

Suys – “Portique du Pantheon a Rome”

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“Portique du Pantheon

a Rome

Fragment du Chapiteau

Grandeur de l’execution”

Tieleman Frans Suys, a belgian architect who completed his architectural eduction in Paris. He played an important role as an architect and urban planner in 19th-century Belgium.

52 cm x 74.5 cm (unframed)

C. 1800

Robert Plot (unframed collection) – 1696

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Copper engravings completed by a Dutch engraver Michael Burghers for Robert Plots’ book ‘The Natural History of Staffordshire’.

Plot (1640-1696) was an Oxford scholar and the first curator of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.

He was influential in moving the traditional method of county studies to a new direction with his emphasis on natural history.

His most influential books were,’The Natural History of Oxfordshire, being an essay towards the Natural History of England’ published in 1677 and ‘The Natural History of Staffordshire’ published in 1686.

Vue D’Optique – Vue du Pont neuf sur la Tamise a Hampton Court

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Vue D’Optique

Vue du Pont neuf sur la Tamise a Hampton Court

Published according to act of Parliament in 1761

The term “vue d’optique” or “perspective view” is used for describing a very special genre of hand coloured copper engravings. Originating in England it became widely produced in Europe during the second half of the 18th Century.

“Perspective views” are usually views of cities around the world. These were shown in “peep boxes”, a special viewer that contained a magnifying lense which gave the viewer the impression of three dimensional perception. Well-to-do people bought such viewing machines for their families and began collecting the vue d’optique engravings showing them at home like a slide show would be shown.

Perspective view prints were usually colored quite boldly before they were sold. Black and white samples are the exception and rather rare. They also have more or less the same format and size because they had to fit the peep boxes. The title of a view was not always, but quite frequently printed in several languages and often repeated above the view in inverted writing which was corrected by the lens for the viewer.

33 cm x 50 cm

Vue D’Optique – Representant le Parc du Chaleau de Milford Hamillon, traverse par la Thamise aux environs de Londres

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Vue D’Optique

Representant le Parc du Chaleau de Milford Hamillon, traverse par la Thamise aux environs de Londres

The term “vue d’optique” or “perspective view” is used for describing a very special genre of hand coloured copper engravings. Originating in England it became widely produced in Europe during the second half of the 18th Century.

“Perspective views” are usually views of cities around the world. These were shown in “peep boxes”, a special viewer that contained a magnifying lense which gave the viewer the impression of three dimensional perception. Well-to-do people bought such viewing machines for their families and began collecting the vue d’optique engravings showing them at home like a slide show would be shown.

Perspective view prints were usually colored quite boldly before they were sold. Black and white samples are the exception and rather rare. They also have more or less the same format and size because they had to fit the peep boxes. The title of a view was not always, but quite frequently printed in several languages and often repeated above the view in inverted writing which was corrected by the lens for the viewer.

32 cm x 44 cm

Vue D’Optique – View of the Royal Hospital and the Rotunda in Ranelagh Gardens

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Vue D’Optique

View of the Royal Hospital and the Rotunda in Ranelagh Gardens

Published according to Act of Parliament

20th August 1761

The term “vue d’optique” or “perspective view” is used for describing a very special genre of hand coloured copper engravings. Originating in England it became widely produced in Europe during the second half of the 18th Century.

“Perspective views” are usually views of cities around the world. These were shown in “peep boxes”, a special viewer that contained a magnifying lense which gave the viewer the impression of three dimensional perception. Well-to-do people bought such viewing machines for their families and began collecting the vue d’optique engravings showing them at home like a slide show would be shown.

Perspective view prints were usually colored quite boldly before they were sold. Black and white samples are the exception and rather rare. They also have more or less the same format and size because they had to fit the peep boxes. The title of a view was not always, but quite frequently printed in several languages and often repeated above the view in inverted writing which was corrected by the lens for the viewer.

26 cm x 40 cm

Vue D’Optique – Le Jardin de Vauxhall

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Vue D’Optique No. 76

Le Jardin de Vauxhall

The term “vue d’optique” or “perspective view” is used for describing a very special genre of hand coloured copper engravings. Originating in England it became widely produced in Europe during the second half of the 18th Century.

“Perspective views” are usually views of cities around the world. These were shown in “peep boxes”, a special viewer that contained a magnifying lense which gave the viewer the impression of three dimensional perception. Well-to-do people bought such viewing machines for their families and began collecting the vue d’optique engravings showing them at home like a slide show would be shown.

Perspective view prints were usually colored quite boldly before they were sold. Black and white samples are the exception and rather rare. They also have more or less the same format and size because they had to fit the peep boxes. The title of a view was not always, but quite frequently printed in several languages and often repeated above the view in inverted writing which was corrected by the lens for the viewer.

30 cm x 44.5 cm

Churchill ‘Botavia’ – 1720

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‘Botavia’

Early 18th Century hand coloured copper engraving.

Published in Churchill’s Voyages 1720 (Rare)

H 40cm W.55cm

Views of City of Auckland – 1860

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‘View of the City of Auckland, with the Commercial Embankment’ and ‘East view of Auckland from a photograph from W. H. Sutcliffe‘

The Illustrated London News

19th May 1860

40 cm x 27 cm