R Parr after Rigaud
The Triumphal Arch in the Garden of Versailles
London, John Bowles, Cornhill ca. 1770
Copper engraving
Original hand colouring
250 x 420 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
