Plate on Canton c. 1750-60
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CANTON. "Vue d´optique d´un arc de triomphe tres élevé, en la ville de Canton en la Chine". Paris, chez Jacques Chereau, no date (about 1750-60).
Engraved handcoloured "vue d´optique" (plate size c. 300x420 mm.). In passepartout. Some slight dampstaining in left outer margin.
Löwendahl: China illustrata nova. Supplement, E 28.
Vues d´optique were engravings to be viewed through a convex lens, such that the viewer saw a reversed and seemingly three-dimensional scene.
Jacques Chéreau (1688-1776) was a printmaker and publisher of optical prints at the rue St. Jacques in paris. After his death the business was continued by his grandson, Jacques-François Chéreau (1742-1794).
From the library of Swedish antiquarian bookdealer Björn Löwendahl (1941-2013).
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Auktionsnummer:
531841
Datum:
2018-03-31