Cochin,fils,after Francois Boucher

Stipple and line engraving

France

c. 1750

15" x 18 1/4"

0734

Heinrich Rode after Bernhardt Rode

Etching

The Netherlands

c. 1750

11 1/2" x 8"

0735

Anonymous

Woodcut

Japan

c.1750

Page: 9" x 11"

The illustration is part of a book(B468) and shows two peep boxes. Early illustrations of such viewing machines first introduced in Japan by Dutch missionaries and merchants.

2093

Anonymous

Vue d'Optique -Handcolored copper engraving 

France

c. 1750

10 1/2" x 18"

0736

(0736A)

Same image but not pierced

Anonymous

Hand-colored copper engraving 

France

c. 1750

13 1/2" x 18"

Vue d'Optique has both a peepshowman and lanternist.

1204

Anonymous

Hand-colored copper engraving

Germany

c. 1750

13" x 18 1/2"

2082

David Herrliberger(1697-1777)

Copper engraving

Switerland

1758

Image: 4" x 2", page:13 1/2" x 8"

This is one of 156 cries from the book Zurcherifche Ausruff Bilder (B80).Three volumes bound in one with engravings of Zurich's street peddlars and tradesmen, each with a characteristic "cry" and accompanying verse.

0739

Ravenet after Louis Philippe Boitard

Hand-colored engraving

Great Britain

1760

8 1/2" x 6 1/2"

1179

Simon Fokke

Etching

The Netherlands

1763

5" x 3 1/4"

0741

Anonymous

Engraving

France

1764

5 3/4" x 4 1/4"

A page from Lecons De Physique Experimentale(B264), by l'Abbe Jean Antoine Nolette,Paris.

1375

Pelletier after Pierre

Engraving

France

c. 1766

7 1/2" x 6"

0742

Noel le Mire after Reiner Brakenburg

Etching

France

c. 1770

12" x 15 1/4"

0743

H. Guttenberg after Johann Eleazan Schenau

Engraving

France

c. 1770

7 1/2" x 5 3/4"

0744

Le Prince

Etching

France

1774

5 5/8" x 3 5/8"

One of a series of five engravings entitled the five senses.

0745

Robert Dighton

Engraving

Great Britain

c. 1780

8" x 6"

1355

Anonymous

Hand-colored etching

Great Britain

1780

9 3/4" x 7 1/2"

The print shows Lord Amherst looking into the peepshow for a view of the progress of the war in America.

1136

Pierre Lelu

Etchings

France

c. 1780

Images: 11 1/4 x 8 1/4"

A pair of images one viewing the peepbox from the back the other from the front where the demons are visible.

0746

Ambrogio Orio(1737-1825)

Engraving

Italy

c.1780

11 3/4 x 15 3/4"

Page from L Arti Che Vanno Per Vie Nella Citta Di Venezia.

0752

F. Boucher

Engraving

France

c. 1780

15 1/2" x 11 1/2"

0751

Anonymous

Etching

Great Britain

c. 1780

3 1/4" x 4"

0780

Anonymous

Etching

France

c. 1780

6 7/8" x 6"

One card from an eighteenth century french board game.

0764

Anon

Watercolor

France

1781

3 1/4" x 2 1/4"

This is a card from an overlay game from depicting the person dressed as a showman with a peepshow. For more images and more information click here

0757

Anonymous after Gaetana Zompini

Engraving

Italy

1785

10" x 7"

A page from Le Arti Citta Di Venezia(B87). A book illustating the different trades of Venice.

0753

Shunzan Katsukawa

Japan

Wood-block print

c.1790

12 1/2" x 8"

0902

Francesco Bartolozzi after Francis Wheatley

Mezzotint

Great Britain

1789

9 1/2" x 9 1/2"

0747

Anonymous

Great Britain

Engraving

c. 1800

6" x 7"

0749

Woodward

Etching

Great Britain

c. 1790

Image:7" x 3 /1/2", page: 7" x 17"

Plate XXIII from De Principles de Caricature(B 134). Part of a large fold-out sheet, which depicts a range of scenes from everyday life.

0771

Thomas Gaugain after J. Barney

Stipple engraving

France

c. 1790

27" x 20"

0750

Anonymous

Etching

c. 1790

France

6 1/2" x 8 1/4"

0755

Anonymous

Etching

Great Britain

1790

13 1/2" x 9 1/2"

Published J.W. Fores

0756

Anonymous

Engraving

Germany

1791

3 1/8" x 4 5/8"

0754

A. Bouwens

Woodcut with a touch of coloring

The Netherlands

c. 1795

16 1/4" x 12 1/4"

The peepshow man is displaying some battle at sea images to the children. Published by J. Bouwer and J. Ratelband, Amsterdam.

4449

James Gillray after David Hess

Etching painted in red ink

England

1796

14" x 11"

An illustration from the book Hollandia Regenerata(B469)including twenty satirical prints attacking the French puppet republic established in Holland in 1795.

1178

Charles Williams

Hand-colored etching

1797

8" x 12"

Image showing Prime Minister, William Pitt the younger, operating a raree show and picking the pocket(taking the savings) of a gullible John Bull (the people).

0758

J. Young after J. Hoppner

Engraving

England

1798

25" x 18"

Published by J. Young, London

1138

Cruikshank after George Moutard Woodward

Hand-colored etching

Great Britain

1798

13" x 9"

1139

Anonymous

Hand-colored engraving

England

1798

10" x 15"

Political cartoon depicting John Bull as a simple man addressing William Pitt, the prime minister, who drags behind him a puppet-show on wheels, the front of which is removed, showing the interior of the House of Commons. Published by SW Fores July 16,1798.

1151

Schubert

Etching

Germany

1798

Image: 4 1/2" x 2 1/2", page: 6" x 3 3/4"

A page from Lebun, Meinungen...Leipzig, 1799(B401).

0748

Dadley affter Pu-Qua

Colored Stipple Engraving

England

1799

8" x 7 3/8"

A page from The Costumes of China(B86) ,London.

0759

Anonymous

Etching

Great Britain

1799

8 1/2" x 13 1/2"

A folding plate from Westminister Magazine, June 1799.

0763

Anonymous

Engraving

Germany

1799

image:2 3/4" x 2" page: 6 1/4" x 4"

3711