5326 - 5459 FINE ARTS - OPTICAL VIEWS and related prints and objects
- Two (neatly) closed tears in centre; lower and upper margin frayed; brown stain in left blank margin.
AND 2 others similar, i.a. "Die Haupt Strasse nebst einem Chinesischen Triumpff-bogen in Canton (oder besser Quantung)" (engr./ publ. by the same).
- Blank margins sl. foxed/ frayed and w. a few tiny holes/ tears.
- Slightly soiled/ browned; lacks sm. portion of upper blank margin; a few vague creases.
= Very rare optical view. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXIII.
- Doubled w. laid paper leaf w. contemp. annots. in pen and black ink; trifle foxed in blank margins; lacks tiny portion of blank margin in upper left corner.
= Sixt v. Kapff K133.
AND 2 similar views publ. by Daumont: "Universitatis ac Reginae Collegiorum prospectus Oxfordiae" and "Omnium Sancti Basilica, in Universitate urbis Oxfordiae".
- A few vague stains in blank margins.
"Le Palais de Luxembourg du côté du Jardin." Contemp. handcol. engr. optical view, w. engr. text in French (in reverse) above and caption below, Paris, Daumont, ±1770.
- Contemp. annots. in lower right corner.
AND 7 others similar, by various French publishers, i.a. "Vuë Générale de la Ville de Paris à l'usage de l'optique", "Le Palais des Tuileries du côté de la Cour" and "l'Interieur du Val de Grace a Paris" (blank margins partly blackened/ cut off).
- Both sl. soiled and w. a few creases. = Sixt v. Kapff 105 and 107.
AND 3 others similar w. perforations for candle-light viewing, i.a. "Vue perspective de l'Interieur de St. Sulpice de Paris" and "Vue perspective d'un Feu d'artifice (...) à Paris" (w. dam. col. paper backing).
- Slightly frayed; stain in German title.
AND 4 others similar, by various publishers, i.a. "Victoriarum Area Parisiis" and "Major Taberna Caffe Alexandri (...)" (both: Paris, Daumont, ±1770).
- Backed w. cardboard margins; a few unobtrusive sm. stains; neverheless fine. = Excellently crafted.
AND 2 others, both similar French views w. perforations and backed w. illustrated paper for candle-light viewing.
- Both trifle thumbed (mainly) in blank margins; 1x foxed, 1x trifle creased.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXIII.
- Slightly frayed; some vague soiled areas. = Sixt v. Kapff K420, one of the series of 7 Weltwunder.
AND 2 others: "Prospectus Area Montis Equus, Romae" (publ. by the same. Sixt v. Kappf K149) and "Vuë du Palais Sacchetti à Rome" (engr. by B.F. LEIZELT after BARBAULT, ibid., "aux Negoce comun", ±1770).
- Tear in the imagenear right edge; a few sm. stains; lower margin sl. thumbed.
AND 3 others similar w. perforations for candle-light viewing: "Vue du fameux Theâtre de Marcelluz à Rome" (Basset, ±1760, backed w. paper with nice watercolour illustrations), "Prospectus Spatii et Templis St. Petri, Florentiae" (G.B. Probst, ±1770) and The Naples shipyard (margins blackened).
- A few tiny stains and rubbed/ worn spots; neverheless fine. = Delicately cut and with some refined drawings.
- Cut to the platemark.
AND 2 other optical views, i.a. "El Capitolio de Roma con l'escalera hacia la iglesia d'Araceli" (view of the Cordonata stairs in Rome).
- Occas. w. some stains/ frayed. = These views show the interior and exterior of the church Cathedral.
- Each w. vague crease in centre; 1x w. closed hole in lower right part.
- Some very vague creases; otherwise fine.
"View of the Exchange the South and North Blaak taken from the Gaapers Bridge." Contemp. handcol. optical view, engr. English and French captions below, "Published according to Act of Parliament", 1752 (lacks 2 small portions of blank margins). - AND 2 others similar, i.a. "Vue de l'entrée du port de Roterdam" (Paris, Mondhard, ±1780).
= Sixt v. Kapff K241-K243.
- Frayed; sl. foxed. = Sixt v. Kapff K 242.
"Prospectus portae veteris Roterodamensis". Contemp. handcol. engr. optical view, engr. French text (in reverse) above and Latin, French, Italian and German captions below, numb. "180", Ibid., idem, ±1770.
- Address in lower marign cut off. = Sixt v. Kapff K240.
AND 3 others similar, i.a. "Vuë des Ponts sur la Meuse a Roterdam" (handcol. engr. optical view, erroneously titled "Roterdam" (copy after an engraving by J. SWERTNER, "Gesigt over het Spaarna by de Brouwery het Dubbelt Anker binnen Haarlem"), ±1770).
- Two views (vaguely) waterst.; occas. sl. foxed/ margins strengthened/ frayed.
= Sixt v. Kapff K400, 401 and 405.
- Manuscript caption in Dutch below; foxed. = Rare view of the Turkish-Venetian naval battle of 1749.