Galerie Christian Collin

(German school, 1727 - 1797)

Une autre partie du Pallais Villa Meneà Gene avec le Prospect très agrable du Coté de la Mer (collection des prospects)

Etching handcoloured

A nice impression on laid paper edited at Ausbourg

With margins

Published in Augsburg in the 18th century, the Collection des Prospects is a series of watercoloured etchings depicting views of cities around the world. Called "vues d'optique" ("perspective views"), these images are intended to be projected with a lantern (or zograscope), which explains the inversion of the subject and title.

Sheet: 485 x 370 mm.

Plate:  390 x 240 mm.

Condition: Time-staining, foxing in the margins, creased