Tapestry
Object description:
Tapestry showing the scene of a woman and a child with a zograscope.
An original instrument from Great Britain used to view optical views in the home, from the second half of the eighteenth century and the early nineteenth century. It consists of a wooden support holding a square frame with a biconvex lens set into it. An adjustable inclining mirror has been attached to it for observing an optical view, which was placed below and behind the instrument.
Object/Work type:
Location:
Gerona - Spain
Production
Unknown
Subject/theme:
toys, tapestries, 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-MP03282