Viewing box, replica

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Viewing box, replica
the green and brown-painted body with removable top section, containing five rising day and night perspective views each operated by a string pulley, and a 10cm.-diameter viewing lens, with internal movement-operated electric light gradually brightening and dimming, mounted on a pair of wood trestle-type legs

Literature

c.f. Thomas Ganz (1994), Die Welt im Kasten, p. 53.
c.f. Magiche visioni prima del Cinema. La Collezione Minici Zotti, p. 30, fig. 19.

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Lot Essay

Two examples of the viewing box were made in 1997/98 in Padova, Italy, with the electronic light fading mechanism being designed and constructed by Ganz A.G. The viewing box is based on the engraving after Gaetano Zompini which appeared in Le arti che vanno per via nella città di Venezia (1785) and an example is offered as lot 97. The second replica is on display in the Minici Zotti Collection in Padova, Italy.

The transformation prints contained within the viewing box are particularly impressive and effective examples.

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