| Foire De CampagneCochin,fils,after Francois Boucher Stipple and line engraving France c. 1750 15" x 18 1/4"
0734 |
| Raritetken KasterHeinrich 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.
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| Vue de la Place d'Alliance à NancyAnonymous Vue d'Optique -Handcolored copper engraving France c. 1750 10 1/2" x 18"
0736
(0736A) Same image but not pierced |
| Vue du Chateau de Vincennes du cote de l'EntreeAnonymous Hand-colored copper engraving France c. 1750 13 1/2" x 18"
Vue d'Optique has both a peepshowman and lanternist.
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| Berlin Opera HouseAnonymous Hand-colored copper engraving Germany c. 1750 13" x 18 1/2"
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| Raritet SchoniraritetDavid 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 |
| L'OptiqueBenoît Louis Henriquez, after François Eisen Engraving France c. 1760 15" x 10 1/2"
A print of two young ladies looking in an optical box but instead of seeing some optical prints (removed and lying in the right corner of the print) they are "exposed" to the backside of young man.
4636 |
| Schone RaritatenLorenz Rugendas after François Eisen Hand-colored etching Germany c.1770 16 1/4" x 12 1/2"
There are several small differences between this and the earlier Henriquez print (4636) including curtains and a dog appearing.
0733 |
| Oh, You Shall See Vat You Shall SeeRavenet after Louis Philippe Boitard Hand-colored engraving Great Britain 1760 8 1/2" x 6 1/2"
A scene showing a London street crier talking to two children, who are looking into a peepshow box. A large board behind is inscribed, 'The Cries of London in Six Parts. Being a Collection of Seventy two Humerous Prints, drawn from the life, by that Celebrated Artist Laroon, with additions & Improvemts by L.P. Boitard”.
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 |
| La CuriositePelletier after Pierre Engraving France c. 1766 7 1/2" x 6"
0742 |
| La CuriositeNoel le Mire after Reiner Brakenburg Etching France c. 1770 12" x 15 1/4"
0743 |
| Optique RenomeeH. Guttenberg after Johann Eleazan Schenau Engraving France c. 1770 7 1/2" x 5 3/4"
0744 |
| The Magic Lantern at The Champs ElyseesLe Prince Etching France 1774 5 5/8" x 3 5/8"
One of a series of five engravings entitled the five senses.
0745 |
| Youthful EntertainmentRobert Dighton Engraving Great Britain c. 1780 8" x 6"
1355 |
| A Vieu of PlymouthAnonymous 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 |
| Peepbox with DemonsPierre 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 |
| Piemontesti con La Lanterna MagicaAmbrogio 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 |
| La VueF. Boucher Engraving France c. 1780 15 1/2" x 11 1/2"
0751 |
| The Raree ShowAnonymous 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 |
| L'Habit Trait L'HommeAnon 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 |
| Venitian PeepshowAnonymous 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 |
| Place Royale de Mefsine avec une partie du Port & du Palais des Vice-RoisJean-Claude Richard de Saint-Non Engraving France c. 1785 9 1/2" x 14 1/2" (plate mark)
A print from the book Voyages pittoresques de Naples et de Sicile, with a large peepshow (carried by poles) set up for multiple viewers.
4551 |
| Shunzan Katsukawa Japan Wood-block print c.1790 12 1/2" x 8"
0902 |
| The Peep ShowFrancesco Bartolozzi after Francis Wheatley Mezzotint Great Britain 1789 9 1/2" x 9 1/2"
0747 |
| The Peep ShowAnonymous 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 |
| The Showman, La Piece CurieuseThomas Gaugain after J. Barney Stipple engraving France c. 1790 27" x 20"
0750 |
| La CuriositeAnonymous 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
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| Der JahrmarktAnonymous Engraving Germany 1791 3 1/8" x 4 5/8"
0754 |
| DE RAAREKIEK-KASA. 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 |
| DE RAAREKIEK-KASA. Bouwens Woodcut The Netherlands c. 1795 16 1/4" x 12 1/4"
Published by J. Bouwer and J. Ratelband, Amsterdam.
4449 |
| Het Committee Van Buitelandsche ZaakenJames 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 |
| Billy's Raree-Show-Or-John Bull Enlighten'dCharles 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 |
| The ShowJ. Young after J. Hoppner Engraving England 1798 25" x 18"
Published by J. Young, London
1138 |
| The Show-manCruikshank after George Moutard Woodward Hand-colored etching Great Britain 1798 13" x 9"
1139 |
| Billy's Fantoccini or John Bull over CuriousAnonymous 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 |
| Ysop mit dem GuckkastenSchubert 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 |
| A Man With A Raree-ShowDadley affter Pu-Qua Colored Stipple Engraving England 1799 8" x 7 3/8"
A page from The Costumes of China(B86) ,London.
0759 |
| The Political Raree-Show: Or A Picture Of Parties And Politics, During And At The close Of The Last SessionAnonymous Etching Great Britain 1799 8 1/2" x 13 1/2"
A folding plate from Westminister Magazine, June 1799.
0763 |
| Satyrischer AlmanachAnonymous Engraving Germany 1799 image:2 3/4" x 2" page: 6 1/4" x 4"
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