Anamorphic drawing for a conical mirror

Institution

Ajuntament de Girona

Object description:

Anamorphic drawing for a conical mirror. Handmade coloured drawing. Anamorphosis is the representation of an image that at first sight is deformed and unrecognizable, though seen from a certain perspective it through a cylindrical or conical mirror its normal shape would appear. This variation must be viewed perpendicularly in a cone-shaped mirror.

Object/Work type:

Location:

Gerona - Spain

Object measurements:

4 x 4,7 x 4,7 cm; 4,7 cm.

Production

Unknown

Date: 18th century

Subject/theme:

toys, visual arts

Resource

Rights Type: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ 

Date Taken: 1996

Record

Rights Type: CC0

Source: Ajuntament de Girona

Identifier: MC-MP00886-1