Details
Peepbox images
Coloured print titled Grand Diorama Universe showing a sideshow peepbox, 250 x 320mm.; La Lanterne Magique de L'Avenir, lithograph from Le Chiarivari, showing Old Father Time as a peepbox man, 280 x 285mm.; a hand coloured engraving showing five comic scenes including a peepbox man and spectator, 205 x 150mm.; a hand coloured image of a young man offering a view at the peepbox to a young woman, marked Duvelleroy No. 57, 162 x 164mm.; a hand coloured lithograph with movable strip of female portraits, showing a caricatured Carabinier enjoying the peep view, signed Ladrey and dated 1864, 185 x 285mm. (5)
Coloured print titled Grand Diorama Universe showing a sideshow peepbox, 250 x 320mm.; La Lanterne Magique de L'Avenir, lithograph from Le Chiarivari, showing Old Father Time as a peepbox man, 280 x 285mm.; a hand coloured engraving showing five comic scenes including a peepbox man and spectator, 205 x 150mm.; a hand coloured image of a young man offering a view at the peepbox to a young woman, marked Duvelleroy No. 57, 162 x 164mm.; a hand coloured lithograph with movable strip of female portraits, showing a caricatured Carabinier enjoying the peep view, signed Ladrey and dated 1864, 185 x 285mm. (5)
Literature
Thomas Ganz (1994), Die Welt im Kasten, p. 8, 59
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