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.}

Optical prints

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Vue de Boston vers le Cale du Port.

A view of the port of Boston, the center of New England shipping in the colonial period. The closing of the port after the Boston Tea Party led to the calling of the Firs...

$400 / ≈ €374

Maker / Publisher: HABERMANN, F.
Place & Date: Augsburg 1762

Per telecopium exhibitio partis inferioris armamentarii. / Representation en perspective de la partie inferieure d'un arsenal. . .

RARE. Engraved optical print by Georg Balthasar Probst of a arsenal.

$300 / ≈ €281

Maker / Publisher: PROBST, G.B.
Place & Date: Augsburg, 1750