A Perspective View of  the Canal, Mall and great Church at the Hague

Anon

A Perspective View of  the Canal, Mall and great Church at the Hague

London , ca 1760

Engraving

255 x 395 mm

£180

These very brightly coloured ‘perspective views’ were printed for both decorative and educational use. They were  intended to be viewed through a device known alternatively as an ‘optical diagonal machine’ or ‘zograscope’, which produced a reversed and magnified image with a crude 3D effect