See our article about optical prints.
Perspective views were produced from the early eighteenth century to the beginning of the nineteenth, the greatest number of them probably between c. 1740-1790.
Little has been published (particularly in English) on the type of print known as the perspective view, intended for use in an optical diagonal machine.
Title page to the first edition, one of about 300 copies printed, from one of the largest and most magnificent of the great flower books, depicting more than 1000 flowers...
Frontispiece of the second part of the first part of this fine atlas. At top, a coat of arms surmounted by a crown and surrounded by two golden chains, the bigger carryin...
Arguably the finest engraved portrait of early mapmakers. In the well-executed design, Gerard Mercator and Jodocus Hondius are seated within an architectural cartouche of...