Vue d’un Feu d’Artifice tire devant l’Hotel de Ville en rejouissance de la Paix

Anon

Vue d’un Feu d’Artifice tire devant l’Hotel de Ville en rejouissance de la Paix

Paris, Bassett ca. 1780

Engraving

Fine original hand colouring

290 x 420 mm

£350.

A splendid, colourful depiction of a firework display.

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