A View near Mr Smith’s House at Batteresea, looking up the Thames

J Boydell

A View near Mr Smith’s House at Batteresea, looking up the Thames

London , J Boydell 1752

Engraving

Original hand colouring

265 x 425 mm

£240

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