An Inside View of the Church of St Stehen Walbrooke, London

J Bowles

An Inside View of the Church of St Stehen Walbrooke, London

London , J Bowles ca 1780

Engraving

Original hand colouring

260 x 400 mm

£160

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