Hand-colored etching

Great Britain

1824

3 1/4" x 4 3/4" x 17

Published by Silvester & Co., London. This was one of many peepshows to commemorate the building of the Thames Tunnel. This one was published just before the beginning of construction. It took the French engineer, Marc Isambard Brunel, eighteen years to complete the tunnel.

0672

Colored lithograph

France

c.1827

4 3/4" x 5 1/2" x 20"

A view of part of the Champs Elysees known as Promenade De Longchamps.

2970

Hand-colored aquatint

Great Britain

1828

4 1/2" x 5 3/4" x 24"

Published by M. Gouyn, London. This is a view of what the tunnel will look like when completed

0671

Hand-colored lithograph

Germany

c. 1830

4 1/2" x 5 1/2" x 21"

In its original slip cover a view of Brunel's Thames Tunnel.

0673

Hand-colored etching

Germany

c. 1830

3 1/4" x 4 1/8" x 10"

Children view through a peep hole at the top of a toy ladden table at a fair with many wonderous things including a child looking at a peepbox.

0661

Hand-colored etching

Germany

c. 1830

3 1/8" x 4 1/8" x 10"

A miniature peepshow showing a grand procession.

0662

Hand-colored lithograph

The Netherlands

c. 1830

3 3/8" x 4 3/8" x 11"

0670

Hand-colored lithograph

France

c. 1830

5 1/8" x 7 3/8" x 18"

A three hole peepshow, with a main view of the interior of the Palais Royal and two views down long outdoor corridors in the original slipcover.

0667

Hand-coslored etching

Great Britain

c. 1830

2 1/2" x 3" x 15"

Although titled Diorama this is a small folding peepshow and instead of a peep hole one views the peepshow from the back and sees the reflected in a mirror on the backside of the cover.

3879

Colored etching

France

c. 1835

Diameter:4 1/2", expanded:5"

Unusual circular concertina peepshow with a transparent back. Hold the back toward light and you can view Napoleon, with his troops, by a fire and in the background Moscow is burning.

0660

Hand-colored lithograph

Germany

c. 1835

6 3/4" x 9" x 28"

A view of a market in Constantinople with one main viewing hole and another four smaller holes for views of side panels.

0663

Hand-colored etching

Continental

c. 1835

5 1/2" x 9" x 23"

This peepshow has three viewing holes, contains seven panels, and shows a busy Constantinopel with Saint Sofia on the last panel.

0664

Hand-colored line engraving

Continental

c. 1835

5 1/2" x 7 1/4" x 24"

A six panel view down the Grand Canal in Venice

0665

Hand-colored lithograph cover and panels

France

c. 1840

Box:7" x 9 1/4" x 1 1/4"; panels:5" x 7 1/2"

Lovely box announcing a panorama, but inside are panels which make up a peepshow view. Sellers often used phrases that were popular at the moment to sell their wares.

2091

Azulay

Hand-colored lithograph

Great Britain

c. 1845

8 1/4" x 7" x 21"

A peepshow with three viewing holes. the top hole provides a view of the Thames River and the bottom two show the promenade in the tunnel.

1148

Chromolithograph

Great Britain

1851

6 1/2" x 8 1/2" x 23"

A view of the interior of the Great Exhibition designed by George Bragg and published by William Spooner. In it's original case.

0666

Chromolithograph

Great Britain

1851

7 1/2" x 6" x 17"

Designed by Rawlins and published by C.A. Lane, London. This is a view of the interior of the Great Exhibition.

1147

Chromolithograph

Great Britain

1851

7” x 8 ¾” x 20”

4424

Hand-colored lithograph

France

1867

5 1/2" x 7 1/2" x 19"

One of a series of peepshows ( in its original slipcover) showing various popular locations published by Haguenthal, Paris, in l867 for the L'Exposition Universelle De Paris.

0668

Colored relief cut

Germany

1896

6 1/4" x 4 3/4" x 15"

A folding peepshow of the World's Fair in Berlin in its slipcase.

4311

Offset lithograph

America

1939

5" x 6 1/2" x 24"

Copyrighted by Elizabeth Sage Hare & Warren Chappell. This peepshow,in it's original slipcover, was done to commemorate the 1939 World's Fair in Flushing , New York.

0674

Colored relief cut

Great Britain

c. 1950

5 ¾” x 9 ¼” x 18”

4425

Edwin Smith

Colored relief cut

Great Britain

1953

8” x 7 ½” x 20”

A view of the crowning of the Queen by the Archbishop go Canterbury in Westminster Abbey.

4226

Colored relief cut

Great Britain

6” x 7” x 20”

A view down the Mall toward Buckingham Palace.