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Maker(s):Unknown
Title:The Imperial Colleges in St. Petersburg with the Merchant Warehouses (Vue d’optique)
Date Made:1750
Type:Print
Materials:Hand colored engraving on hand-made paper
Measurements:Sheet: 11 7/8 x 17 5/16 in.; 30.2 x 44.0 cm; Plate: 9 3/8 x 15 3/8 in.; 23.8 x 39.1 cm
Accession Number:  AC 2001.470
Credit Line:Gift of Thomas P. Whitney (Class of 1937)
Museum Collection:  Mead Art Museum at Amherst College
2001-470.JPG

Label Text:
The horizontally reversed inscription at the top shows that the print was intended for viewing through a zograscope, an optical device used to magnify flat images. Its lenses and mirrors produced an illusion of depth and a sense of immersion into the view. Prints of this kind, known as vues d’optique (“perspective views”), were popular across Europe throughout the 18th and early 19th centuries.

Maria Timina (2025)

Tags:
imperialism; public spaces; education; built environments

Subjects:
Public spaces; Engraving

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