Title: | Vue de Grande Taile |
Date: | c. 1850 |
Material: | Lithography, hand watercolor on paper, wood frame |
Dimensions: | 8 × 5¾ in. (203 × 146 mm) |
For a small peep box used in the home. The streetlamps are holes cut through the paper. The viewer had two flaps, one for front lighting and the other for backlighting. The prints are attached to a light wooden frame, which keeps them flat when displayed upright in the viewer. (Zograscopes don't require mounted prints because a mirror in the optical path allows the viewing of horizontally placed pictures.)