Optical view

Institution

Ajuntament de Girona

Object description:

Vue de Cadix. View for optics box. Hand-coloured engraving on cardboard. The optical viewers were hand-coloured engravings. The images, created with a camera obscura, had a sharp perspective so as to create a sensation of depth of an optical box.

Object/Work type:

prints (visual works)

Location:

Gerona - Spain

Object measurements:

34 x 44 cm

Production

Leizelt, Balthasar Frederic (engraver)

Place: France

Subject/theme:

prints, optics, 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-MP02306