De’barquement des Troupes Angloises a’ Nouvelle Yorck

Anon

De’barquement des Troupes Angloises a’ Nouvelle Yorck

Paris, J Chereau, ca 1780

Engraving

Original hand colouring

275 x 405 mm

£350

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