INVENTORY OF THE NEKES COLLECTION OF OPTICAL DEVICES,
PRINTS, AND GAMES, 1700-1996, bulk 1740-1920
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INVENTORY OF THE NEKES COLLECTION OF OPTICAL DEVICES,
PRINTS, AND GAMES, 1700-1996, bulk 1740-1920
Accession no. 93.R.118
Finding aid prepared by Isotta Poggi
Getty Research Institute
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Nekes collection of optical
devices, prints, and games
Dates: 1700-1996
Dates: 1740-1920
Collection number: 93.R.118
Collector:
Nekes,
Werner
Extent:
45 linear feet
(75 boxes, 1 flat file folder)
Repository:
Getty Research Institute
Research Libary
Special Collections and Visual Resources
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688
Abstract: German filmmaker. The collection charts the
nature of visual perception in modern European culture at a time when
pre-cinema objects evolved from instruments of natural magic to devices for
entertainment. Most of the items date from the mid-18th century to the early
20th century.
Language: Collection material is
in French,
German and
English.
Administrative Information
Access
Open for use by qualified researchers.
Publication Rights
Preferred Citation
Nekes collection of optical devices, prints, and games, 1700-1996,
bulk 1740-1920, Research Library, The Getty Research Institute, Accession no.
93.R.118
Acquisition Information
This collection, acquired in 1993, is a portion of the larger
collection of optical devices, prints and games assembled by the German
experimental filmmaker Werner Nekes.
Processing History
The collection was initially rehoused by Hillary Brown. In 1995-1997
it was processed and cataloged by Isotta Poggi. The collection was re-boxed by
Alan Tomlinson in April 1999. The finding aid was edited by Jocelyn Gibbs in
1998-99. A large portion of the collection was included in the exhibition
Devices of Wonder: From the World in a Box to Images on a Screen, 2000 at the J. Paul Getty Museum.
Biographical / Historical Note
Already a collector in his early childhood, Werner Nekes turned his
interest to film and cinema history when he reached his twenties. While he was
a student of linguistic philology and psychology in Freiburg and Bonn in the
mid-1960s he worked on his first film. Between 1969 and 1972 he taught at the
Academy of Visual Arts in Hamburg.
While doing research for an article on thaumatropes, he began to
collect devices, prints, and books related to pre-cinema technologies and
entertainment. Ten years later, when he finally found an original set of
thaumatropes in Cologne, he had assembled a broad range of material concerning
anamorphosis, panoramas, camera obscuras, peepshows, metamorphosis,
shadowgraphy, and optical illusions along with a supporting library.
In the early 1980s he taught first as visiting professor at Wuppertal
and later at the Academy of Art and Design in Offenbach. Some years later he
worked as a consultant for the pre-cinema galleries of the Deutsches Film
Museum in Frankfurt and co-founded the North Rhine-Westfalia film office, as
well as the International Center for New Cinema in Riga.
In this period he also designed and installed a room-sized
walk-through camera obscura in a former Wasserturm, which had been turned into
a museum in Mülheim a. d. Ruhr. In 1992, in the same museum, he exhibited his
pre-cinema collection in the exhibition Von der Camera Obscura zum Film. In
1993 he organized the exhibition Schattenprojektionen and directed the
Internationales Schatten-theaterfestival in Oberhausen.
Since 1965 Nekes has directed more than 70 films (see his filmography
in Appendix 1) including a series of documentaries that demonstrate how early
optical devices, prints, and other objects contributed to the development of
popular entertainment as well as to the evolution of cinema technologies. In
these documentaries (available in the Getty Research Library on videotape) he
used the material from his own collection, a portion of which was acquired by
the Getty Research Institute in 1993.
Scope and Content of Collection
The Nekes collection of optical devices, prints, and games charts the
nature of visual perception in modern West European culture and the rise of
popular artifacts which used movement and tricks of visual perception to amuse
and astonish. The items date from circa 1700 to the early 20th century, with
the bulk dating from the mid-18th century to the early 20th century. The
collection contains rare items such as a French camera obscura, circa 1750, as
well as popular images, such as 19th-century magic lantern slides, paper
silhouettes and greeting cards with moving parts. Other items include an
18th-century peepshow, peepshow prints, over 100 megalographs, a camera lucida,
a Lorrain mirror, a zograscope, anamorphosis watercolors accompanied by a cone
viewer, and circa 20 collapsible Engelbrecht perspective theatres.
Arrangement
Indexing Terms
Subjects - Topics
Animation
(Cinematography)--Instruments.
Drawing
instruments
Optical
instruments
Popular
culture--Europe
Genres and Forms of Material
Advertising
cards--1800-1900
Amusements
Anamorphoses
Camera lucidas
Camera
obscuras
Card
games--1700-1900
Cast shadows
Educational
games
Educational
toys
Engravings--Europe--18th
century
Engravings--Europe--19th
century
Flip books
Games
Lantern slides
Magic lanterns
Miniature
theaters
Montages--1700-1900
Optical
toys--1700-1900
Optical
illusions
Peepshows
Phenakistoscopes
Physionotrace
works
Prints--Europe--18th
century
Prints--Europe--19th
century
Thaumatropes
Stereoscopic
photographs
Stereoscopes--1700-1900
Toys
Vues d'optique
Contributors
Boilly, Louis,
1761-1845
Campe, Friedrich,
1777-1846
Hogarth, William,
1697-1764
Shénan, J. E.
Spooner,
William
Imagerie Pellerin
(Epinal, France)
L. Saussine
(Firm)
Riley Brothers,
Ltd.
S. W. Fores
(Firm)
Liebig's Extract of Meat
Company
Titles
Optical devices collection
(Getty Research Institute)
Prints collection (Getty
Research Institute)
Series I.
Prints,
circa
1700-1996
Scope and Content Note
Series comprises a variety of illustrations, most of which
illustrate optical phenomena and the use of optical devices and toys. A few are
toys designed to be manipulated so as to produce visual effects involving
movement or transformation. Series is arranged in 2 subseries.
Series IA.
Prints depicting optical devices and optical phenomena,
1700-1996
Scope and Content Note
Anamorphosis is represented in two documentary images that
illustrate how to design anamorphic projections. A print by Hogarth depicts the
result of misinterpreting the rules of perspective; several prints show an
early 20th-century fictional vision of scientific progress and inventions in
the year 2000 (from the series En l'an 2000). One print shows the manufacture
of glass, and others show various optical devices (such as the zograscope, the
camera lucida, and the magic lantern) and electricity. Twelve printed items
show the use of the magic lantern. In one example the magic lantern is used as
a slide projector in strategic military planning. Another (oversize) print, by
J.E. Shénan, illustrates the atmosphere of a magic lantern entertainment show
in the late 18th century (La laterne magique). One print shows dendrites and
mineral abstract compositions (see also Series III for a florentine stone whose
patterns resemble a Tuscan city skyline). Other oversize prints include two
prints after paintings by L. Boilly, L'Amour couronnée and L'Optique, (the
latter depicts the zograscope used for entertainment at home) and three posters
advertise Werner Nekes'exhibition, Schatten Projektionen (held in Germany in
Spring 1993), and his film series, Was geschah wirklich zwischen den Bilder? in
which Nekes shows artifacts from his collection, many of which are now in the
Getty collection.
Southwark Fair (after Hogarth) and four other prints illustrate
various types of peepshow boxes and depict itinerant showmen carrying peepshows
on their backs. The optical phenomenon known as persistence of vision is
represented in a technical print which depicts a praxinoscope, and in a small
advertising image for a zoetrope. A Lavater engraving shows how profiles may be
traced by means of projected shadows. A manual contains instructions on how to
cast shadows on a wall.
Also included are prints with moveable or foldable parts (such
as the cutout forms from the Imagerie d'Épinal, designed to turn in the wind,
and a satirical image depicting a couple whose heads revolve). Other printed
items for children are meant to be cutup and reassembled.
Box 1*, Folder 1
[Engraving about anamorphosis after J. Holbein
painting],
circa
1850
Scope and Content Note
Paris; chez Chereau et Joubert, rue des Mathurins aux deux
Pilliers d'Or; J. A. Piérron Sculp.
Box 1*, Folder 1
[2 prints about anamorphosis],
1753
Scope and Content Note
From Alexandre Savérien, Dictionnaire Universal de
Mathematique et de Physique. Paris. Tome I, plate XXXV and plate XXXVII.
Box 1*, Folder 2
Le Verre,
1850s-1870s
Scope and Content Note
Paris; Typographie E. Meyer, 22 rue de Verneuil; From:
Delbrück, Jules. Les récréations instructives. Paris: G. Borrani. circa
1860-62. Vol. I. Illustrates glass manufacturing and a magic lantern and a
peepshow; Colored engraving; 30x39cm.
Box 1*, Folder 2
Das Ballongespenst,
1889?
Scope and Content Note
Germany; Gebrüder Kröner; Original-zeichnung von C.G.Robech.
Date handwritten on verso. Wood engraving depicting reflection; 32x24cm.
Box 1*, Folder 3
[Color wood engraving with 12 scenes],
1800s
Scope and Content Note
Printed in The Netherlands. One of the scenes depicts the
zograscope; 30x37cm.
Box 1*, Folder 3
[Camera lucida],
1800s
Scope and Content Note
Printed image from a German magazine.
Box 1*, Folder 4
Catoptrics: plate CXXVIII,
circa
1800
Scope and Content Note
A Bell Prin. Wal. sculptor fecit. Engraving; 26.5x20cm.
Box 1*, Folder 4
El progreso científico; El Fotófono : Aparatos Para
“oir la luz” y “ver el sonido,
1890
Scope and Content Note
Spain. Engraving from unidentifed printed source; 15x24cm.
Box 1*, Folder 5
Whoever makes a design without the knowledge of
perspective will be liable to such obscurities as are shown in the print,
1700s
Scope and Content Note
England, W. Hogarth, J. Moore Sculp. Engraving; 14.5x12
cm.
Box 1*, Folder 5
L’ Electricité,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Paris. Showing uses of electricity. Colored wood engraving;
26x37.5cm.
Box 1*, Folder 6-9
En l'an 2000,
circa
1900
Scope and Content Note
8 color lithograph sheets with 82 cards whose images envision
life in the year 2000 (including one with caption, Correspondance
Cinéma-Phono-Télégraphique); 10.5 x 12.5 cm. and smaller. 2 prints per
folder.
Box 1*, Folder 10
Mr. & Mrs. Caudle during the various curtain
lectures,
1800s
Scope and Content Note
London, published by William Spooner, 377 Strand; Kohler &
L'Enfant lith. Printers. Two prints with moving parts, with revolving heads.
Color lithograph; 32x25 cm. Fragile.
Box 1*, Folder 10
Carriage at pleasure,
1860
Scope and Content Note
France. With fold-up window. Colored engraving; 23x28 cm.
Box 1*, Folder 11
Naturspiele: Dendriten and Florentiner Ruinen-Marmor,
1700s
Scope and Content Note
Germany, J.H. Schnuzer. Color engraving with three figures
showing dendrites and the Florentine stone; with related text (Miscellanea, Vol
IX, No. 28) in German, French, Latin, and Hungarian (?); 25x20cm.
See also Box 30 for a Florentine / Tuscany stone.
Box 1*, Folder 11
Constructions Petit,
1870s?
Scope and Content Note
Imagerie de P. Didion, à Metz, Delhalt Successeur; Déposé à
Metz et à Nancy. Format Transformations no. 71. Transformation pictures for
children on one sheet meant to be cut up in order to form new pictures. Color
wood engraving; 38x26cm.
Box 1*, Folder 12
[Cut-out shapes for children] undated
Scope and Content Note
French; Imagerie d'Épinal; Pellerin & Cie. To create
mechanical forms animated by wind. 3 color wood engravings.
Box 1*, Folder 12
Moulin à vent
Physical Description:
2 sheets, No 1001, 1024.
Box 1*, Folder 12
Scierie
Physical Description:
No. 1006.
Box 1*, Folder 12
La Maison du Forgeron
Physical Description:
No. 1002. 29.5 x 40 cm.
Box 1*, Folder 13
Decoraciones de Teatro,
1840
Physical Description:
3 items
Scope and Content Note
Barcelona; Lit. de hijos de Paluzíe. Color wood engravings;
37x46 cm.
Box 1*, Folder 13
Decoraciones de teatro de casa rustica
#1007
Box 1*, Folder 13
Decoraciones de teatro: Bastidores #1020
Box 1*, Folder 13
Decoraciones de teatro de sala #1020
Box 1*, Folder 14
Galerie Militaire Française Rébus Images,
circa
1800
Scope and Content Note
Lyon; chez Giraud freres et Gayet; rue Bonneveau. Engraving
with 36 scenes. No 16. 28.5x38.5cm.
Box 1*, Folder 15
[Robertson Lantern],
1840
Scope and Content Note
France. Printed image from unidentifed French journal.
Box 1*, Folder 15
3 color greeting cards that depict magic lanterns,
circa
1900
Scope and Content Note
France. La lanterne magique; Amitié sincère; [Children
watching a magic lantern show].
Box 1*, Folder 15
[Magic lantern show and turning pictures],
1900s
Scope and Content Note
Cop. by C. Delattre No. 9; Lilla Nygatan; 9 Stock-holm, Sweden
No. 4028. Color greeting card / postcard; 15.5x10.5cm.
Box 1*, Folder 16
Geistererscheinung auf der Bühne,
1864
Scope and Content Note
Phantasmagoria. Wood engraving, torn from unidentified German
publication.
Box 1*, Folder 16
Reproduction photographischer Depeschen durch die
Laterna magica während der Belagerung von Paris,
1877
Scope and Content Note
Germany; from: Das Buch der Erfind., 7 Aufl., II Bd., p.32. On
the use of the magic lantern for educational / military / strategic purposes;
16.5x24.5cm. Cut from publication.
Box 1*, Folder 17
La Lanterne Magique : Diogène faisant voir la lanterne
magique à Alexandre,
circa
1850
Scope and Content Note
No. 1; Chez Aubert & Cie. Pl. de la Bourse; Imp. d'Aubert
& Cie. 23x30.5cm.
Box 1*, Folder 18
Laterna magica : zauberbilder,
circa
1900
Scope and Content Note
Germany, Munich; Mün-chener Bilderbogen; Hof. und
Universitätis Buch-druckerei von Dr. C. Wolf & Sohn in München;
Herausgegeben und verlagt von Braun & Schneider. No. 128 and No. 129; 2
sheets, 4 pictures each; 44.5x35.5cm.
Box 1*, Folder 18
La lanterne magique,
1800s
Scope and Content Note
France; N.o 60; Ces dessins ornent les enveloppes co-miques
qu'on trouve chez M. M. Aubert; pictures signed T. Maurisset. 1 sheet, 3
pictures, with captions: La lanterne magique d'Aubert; Le premier jour de
l'année; Les indiscrétions. 8x14cm. For framed prints depicting the magic
lantern, see also Boxes 71*-72**.
Box 1*, Folder 19
La foire = Der Jaarmarkt,
1700s
Scope and Content Note
The Netherlands. No 11; Shows the trades at the fair,
including the peepshow Captions in French and Dutch. Hand-colored; 34x36cm.
Box 1*, Folder 20
[Trades and occupations including man with a portable
peepshow],
1800s
Scope and Content Note
Germany; Nurnberg; bei Fr. Campe. Color engraving;
27x44cm.
Box 1*, Folder 20
[Chinese peep box],
1800s
Scope and Content Note
Color engraving.
Box 1*, Folder 21
Southwark Fair,
1796
Scope and Content Note
England; engraved by J. Phillibronn. from original by William
Hogarth; Jones & Co. Temple of the Muses, Finsbury Square. Published also
in Il mondo nuovo as work by T. Cook (c.1744-1818). Etching; 12.5x16.5cm. on
mount 20x23.3cm.
Box 1*, Folder 21
Oh raree shoe = Rare chose a voir = Chi vuol veder
meraviglie,
circa
1950
Scope and Content Note
England; Mauron delin.; P. Tempest exc. No. 22. Color
engraving.
Box 1*, Folder 22
Le Praxinoscope, jouet d'optique,
1879
Scope and Content Note
Framed print; 14x9.5cm. Cut from a French magazine.
Box 1*, Folder 22
Kaléidoscope [i.e. Zoetrope],
1880s-1890s
Scope and Content Note
France; Cambrai. Advertisement for la Chicorée Nouvelle, by
Casiez-Bourgeois; Titled mistakenly: Kaléidoscope. 10.2x6cm. Shows children
playing with a zoetrope. Lithograph.
Box 1*, Folder 23
Image Contre-Révolutionnaire: Silhouette de Louis XVI
au menton du sans - culotte,
1790s
Scope and Content Note
France. Etching; 20.5x13.5cm.
Box 1*, Folder 24
Art of Shadowgraphy : how it is done,
192?
Scope and Content Note
London; By Trewey; Print. Publi.d by Jordison & Co., Ltd.,
40 Gerrard St., Shaftesbury Ave., W. and at Middlesbrough. 16pp. booklet;
22cm.
Box 1*, Folder 24
Chocolat de Beukelaer,
undated
Physical Description:
15 cards
Scope and Content Note
Advertising cards with silhouette figures, on black sheets of
paper. From The Netherlands?
Box 1*, Folder 25
Method of taking profiles,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Lavater Silhouettier-Stuhl. Engraving; 16.8x9.8cm.
Box 1*, Folder 25
Megalographie,
1870
Scope and Content Note
France; Testu & Massin, Paris. 3 chromolithographs showing
the use of megalographs. Advertisement cards “Au bon marche;” Aristide
Boucicaut; 8x12cm.
Box 71*
[Magic Lantern]
undated
Scope and Content Note
France; Pegard or Degard. Engraving, framed.
Box 72**
La laterne magique,
1790
Scope and Content Note
J.E. Shénan pinx.; J. Ouvrier sculp; A Paris chez l'Auteur
Place Maubert, chez Mr Bellot Md Bonnetier au Soleil d'or. “dediée a Son
Altesse Sérénissime Monseigneur le Prince Palatin du Rhin Duc régnant des Deux
Ponts.” Engraving.
Box 73**
L'optique,
1790s
Scope and Content Note
French; [Peint par L.Boilly]; [(La Bassée 1761 - Paris 1845)];
[Gravé par F. Cazenave] [(Paris 1770-?)]; [A Paris chez l'Auteur, Rue Jacques
N. 13 en face de la rue de la parcheminerie]; [Imprimé par Finot]. Engraving;
13.5x19.5cm.
Box 74**
L'Amour couronn,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Peint par L. Boilly; Gravé par J. F. Cazenave. Engraving; 55 x
45 cm. in frame 79 x 64.5cm.
Flat file folder 1**
Posters advertising an exhibition and a film by Werner
Nekes,
1993-1996
Physical Description:
3 items
Flat file folder 1**
Schatten Projektionen : Ausstellung vom 3.
April bis 18. Mai 1993
Flat file folder 1**
Was geschah wirklich zwischen den
Bilder?
Physical Description:
2 copies.
Series IB.
Vues d'optique and translucent prints,
circa
1700-1976
Scope and Content Note
A large group of translucent illustrations, meant to be viewed
with backlighting, includes 35 German and French vues d'optique (pricked and
non-pricked prints), several French pin-pricked prints, and English polyorama
images. See also Series III for translucent objects, such as the lithophane
depicting Napoleon III, the porcelain lamp shade, and a moonlight scene printed
on gauze cloth.
Box 2*
Non-pricked vues d'optique,
circa
1700-1976
Box 2*, Folder 1
Vue de la Porte et Place Bourgogne sur le Port de la
Ville de Bordeaux,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Paris; chez J. Chereau, rue S.t Jacques. No.114; mounted on
wood; color engraving.
Box 2*, Folder 1
[Cityscape]
undated
Scope and Content Note
Representing a walled city by a river; On verso: hard to read
handwritten captions. Colored engraving; 17.5x26.3 cm.
Box 2*, Folder 2
Thuscana Visus,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Iustus Sadeler excudit. 1 print, part of series on 5 senses.
24.5x36.5cm. Cfr. Il Mondo Nuovo, p.239, Catalogo Remon-dini series on 5
senses; cfr. also catalog Probst, ibid. p.72.
Box 2*, Folder 2
Prospectus Interior Ecclesiae S.ti Pauli in Roma =
L'interieur de S.t Paul de Rome, between
1740-1775
Scope and Content Note
Paris; chez Daumont, rue St. Martin; Anne Fonbonne Sculp. 7.e
Vue d'optique representant; on paper, not stiffened; 33x47.5cm. The caption's
format compares with the Vauxhall gardens vue d'optique Box 3, f. 3. See also
pricked vue d'optique of St. Paul's in Rome church interior Box 3, f. 7.
Box 2*, Folder 3
[Neoclassic fountain in foreground with palace in
background]
1700s
Scope and Content Note
Blackened on frame, no caption visible; 26.5x36.5cm.
Box 2*, Folder 3
L'Eglise de St. Pierre a Rome,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Representing an entrance. Title handwritten on verso.
26x41.5cm.
Box 2*, Folder 4
Vue de l'hospital des enfants trouvés a Londres. The
Foundling Hospital of London, Act of Parl't
1 May
1756
Scope and Content Note
Paris; chez Basset, rue S. Jacques a S.e Genevieve.
30x43cm.
Box 2*, Folder 4
Netley Abbey,
undated
Scope and Content Note
London; Reeves & sons Cheapside & W. Morgan 64 Hutton.
G. W.'s Dioramic views: No.[3], number in pencil; l9.5x15 cm.
Box 2*, Folder 5
Mont Blanc,
1838
October 12
Scope and Content Note
London; published by Wm. Morgan, 25 Bart-letts Buildings,
Holborn. No 16; Morgan's Improved Protean Scenery; 17x25cm.
Box 2*, Folder 5
[Crystal palace]
1851
May
Scope and Content Note
England; London; publ. by William Spooner, 379 Strand.; G. F.
Bragg del.
Verso: Spooner's Protean View of the Great Exhibition of All
Nations: Changing the Exterior to the Interior View of the Building, London.
Recto: The Crystal palace, As Seen From Kensington Gardens, London.
23x28.5cm.
See Box 21 for more images by William Spooner.
Box 2*, Folder 6
Thames Tunnel, London,
circa
1850
Scope and Content Note
England; London; publ. by William Spooner; 379 Strand.
15.5x24cm.
Box 2*, Folder 6
[Volcano]
undated
Scope and Content Note
Denmark; Alfred Jacobsen. No. 2; backlit translucent print;
31x37cm.
Box 2*, Folder 7
[Alchemist laboratory]
1976
Scope and Content Note
Denmark; Alfred Jacobsen. F456. Backlit translucent print;
27x39cm.
Box 2*, Folder 7
[Enchanted garden]
1976
Scope and Content Note
Denmark; Alfred Jacobsen. F440. Backlit translucent print;
27x39cm.
Box 2*, Folder 8
[Castle interiors]
1799
Feb 16
Scope and Content Note
London; Publ.d at R. Ackermann; 101 Strand; Mannskirsch del.
& sculp.
Two lithographs with colored paper backing; b&w; print
size: No.17: 47x34.5cm.; No.18: 47x34.5cm.
Box 3
Pricked vues d'optique,
1740-1810
Box 3, Folder 1
Nan-hsiung,
circa
1750-1810
Scope and Content Note
Augsbourg; Negoce co-mun de l'Academie Im-periale d'Empire des
Arts libereaux; Gravé par Francois Xav. Haber-mann; Vue de Nanhung; Nanhung:
Ist die 3te Haupt Granz und Zoll Stadt, in der chinesischen Provinz Quantung,
wobei ein Wasser fliesset, welches so schwarz wie eine Dinte, u. worinen doch
die geschmackhaffteste Fische sich befunden auch ist hier die beste schwarze
Erde anzutreffen, worauss der berühmte chinesische Dusch oder schwarze Farbe
versertiget wird. Also with equivalent text in French. Collection des
prospects; 31x44cm.
Box 3, Folder 2
Les pyramides de l'Egypte,
circa
1750-1810
Scope and Content Note
Pyramides Aegyptiae, miraculum mondi tertium = Les pyramides
de l'Egypte, troisieme miracle du monde = I [sic] piramidi d'Egitto, il terzo
miracolo del mondo = Die egyptischen Pyramiden, dritte Wunderwerck der Welt.
Med. Fol.o Augsburg; Georg Baltha-sar Probst excud. A. V. No 43; 31x44cm.
Box 3, Folder 3
Prospectus majoris deambulatorii horti Vauxhall ab
Introitu = La vue de la Grande Allee du Jardin de Vauxhall prise de l'Entrée,
1740-1775
Scope and Content Note
Paris chez rue [St. Martin]. 24e Vue d'optique representant...
31x45cm.
Box 3, Folder 4
Palais du Rois de Pologne,
undated
Scope and Content Note
A view of Bilnitz in Saxony one of the Palaces of the King of
Poland = vue de Bilntz, en Saxe, un des palais du roi de Pologne. Etching;
28.5x43.5cm.
Box 3, Folder 5
Pyrotechnicae repraesentationis splendidissimae typus
= Réprésentation d'un superbe feu d'artifice,
circa
1766-1790
Scope and Content Note
[Augsburg; G. Balthasar Probst] Cf. Il Mondo Nuovo, p.72. Med.
Fol.o N.o 53. Fireworks in honor of Joseph II. Engraving; 31x44.5cm.
Box 3, Folder 6
[Prospectus magni mercatus versus Ecclesie B.B.M./ad
Monachium. = Vue du grand Marchè vers l'Eglise de Notre Dame a Mume]
undated
Scope and Content Note
[Bassano; Remondini]? Caption / title taken from Il Mondo
Nuovo, p.228, Catalogo Remondini. 30x45cm.
Box 3, Folder 7
St. Paul de Rome. The inside of S Pauls Church in Rome
= Vue interieur de l'Eglise de S Paul de Rome,
1740-1775
Scope and Content Note
Paris; chez Daumont rue St. Martin. 28x44cm. See Box 2*, f.2
for a less fine copy of this vue d'optique.
Box 3, Folder 8
Prospectus ecclesiae Sanctae Mariae Majoris,
undated
Scope and Content Note
View of the church in Rome. After Piranesi. 29x44cm.
Box 3, Folder 9
Theatre de Marcelluz a Rome: Vue du fameux Theatre de
Marcelluz a Rome,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Paris; chés Huquier fils, Graveur, rue St. Jacques. Etching;
28x44cm.
Box 3, Folder 10
L'amphitheatre de Rome,
circa
1750-1810
Scope and Content Note
Amphitheatrum romanum, miraculum mundi sextum = L'amphitheatre
de Rome, sixieme miracle du monde = L'amfiteatro di Roma, il sesto miracolo del
mondo = Der grosse runde Schauplaz zu Rom, sechste Wunderwerk der Welt,
Augsburg; Georg Bal-thasar Probst excud. AV. Med. Fol.o No 43; 31x44cm. Cf.
Vedereviaggiare, p.72.
Box 3, Folder 11
Vue de la place St. Charles de Turin,
1740-1775
Scope and Content Note
Paris; chez Daumont rue St. Martin. Etching; 28x44cm. Vue
Perspective de la place St. Charles de Turin et de la porte neuve dans
l'eloignement; Cf. Vedereviaggiare, p.116.
Box 3, Folder 12
Gezic[ht] [na de Ra]am Poort [te Am]sterdam = Vue de
la Porte des Rame à Amsterdam,
circa
1750-1810
Scope and Content Note
Amsterdam; by P. Fouquet junior; 29.5x44.5cm. Found in
Catalogus 115 prenten Amsterdam, p.19.
Box 3, Folder 13
Gesigt het Buyten-Hof na het Hof te zien in ‘s
Gravenhage = Vue du Buyten-Hof, vers la Cour a la Haye = Veduta del Buyten-Hof,
verso la corte a Haia = Prospect des Buyten-Hof, gegen Hof anzusehen, zu
Grafenhaag,
undated
Scope and Content Note
202; Etching; 30.5x43 cm.
Box 3, Folder 14
Winter gezigt van t'Hage: van de zyde van het
westland,
1757
Scope and Content Note
Title handwritten on verso; date handwritten on piece.
Iceskating scene. 30x44.5cm.
Box 3, Folder 15
Gesigt van de inside van de Kirck te Gouda,
circa.
1750-1810
Scope and Content Note
Title handwritten on verso; 29.5x44.5cm.
Box 3, Folder 16
Vue du Promontore du Bonne Esperance,
circa
1750-1810
Scope and Content Note
Gravé par I. Riedet? Prospect des Vorgeburges der Guten
Hoffnung = Vue du promontoir de Bonne Esperance. Collection des prospects;
31x45cm.
In Il mondo nuovo F. Riedel is listed as one of the artists
active at the Kaiserlich Franziskische Akademie.
Box 3, Folder 17
Banque des Marchands à Stockholm,
1755-1790
Scope and Content Note
[Augsburg; Academie imperiale d'Empire des arts liberaux...]
Collection des Prospects.; 29x44cm.
Box 3, Folder 18
Vue de Saalstadt. Lust Pallast zu Saalstadt des
Königes von Schweden = Vue de Saalstadt Palais d'Été de S. M. le Roi de Suede,
1750-1810
Scope and Content Note
Augsbourg ou Negoce comun de l'Academie Imperiale d'Empire des
Arts liberiaux; Jaques [sic] Miller delin.; Gravé par Jean Benoit Winkler.
Collection des Prospects; 30x43cm.
Box 3, Folder 19
[Lightning and shipwreck]
circa
1750-1810
Scope and Content Note
30x42cm.
Folder 4-5
Pin-pricked images,
1750-1851
Scope and Content Note
Composed entirely from pin-pricks unless otherwise noted.
Box 4
[Flower bouquet]
undated
Scope and Content Note
Image à l'Aiguille. Produced in France. 36x23 cm.; on
cream-colored paper.
Box 4
[Bird]
undated
Scope and Content Note
Image à l'Aiguille. Produced in France. 14x22 cm.; on
cream-colored paper.
Box 5
[Man standing with stick and pitcher]
1750 or
1780
Scope and Content Note
Pin-prick and watercolor drawing; in wooden frame with glass;
30x24.3cm.
Box 5
Urania's mirror or, a view of the heavens; pictures of
the constellations,
1825
Scope and Content Note
London, Samuel Leigh, 18 Strand. Print on box lid: Sid[ne]y
Hall. sculp[si]t. Cardboard box, wit23.5x17.5x3cm., contains 32 pricked
etchings of the constellations on with white backing paper.
Box 6
L'hiver et l'ete,
1851
Scope and Content Note
France; Lemaire. No. 69. 1 polyorama image, meant to be
backlit, framed in wood for support but without viewing device; 26x33.5 cm.
Box 7
Polyorama images,
1851
Physical Description:
18 images
Scope and Content Note
France; Lemaire. 14.5x20cm.. Fragile: 1-11 in bad condition,
some ripped. See Box 70** for viewer.
Box 7
Le palais de Cristal Extérieur et Intérieur
(Londres)
Box 7
Place de la Concorde, Paris
Box 7
Le nouveau parlement (Londres)
Box 7
Chapelle de Holy-rood (Edimbourg): Exterieur et
intérieur
Box 7
Palerme : environs de Palerme
Box 8
[Napoleon III]
1860s
Physical Description:
15.5x12.5cm.
Scope and Content Note
France. Lithophane picture.
See Box 63** for another example.
Box 9
[Moonlight]
1830
Scope and Content Note
France. Pencil drawing on paper and thin fabric; in oval paper
mat, in glass and wood frame; 23.5x28.5cm.
Series II.
Cards and small printed items,
circa
1750-1980
Scope and Content Note
Series includes greeting cards, advertising cards, montage cards,
and backlit postcards, along with silhouttes (aka megalographs) and printed
items that use transparency for their effects. Series arranged in three
subseries.
Series IIA.
Cards,
circa
1750-1950
Scope and Content Note
Subseries includes a group of greeting cards in the Biedermeier
style, which were used in late 19th-century Germany and Austria to express
thoughts of love and friendship. These cards “move” through pullout or foldout
windows. Montage cards include games from France, Germany, and Spain (with
several “metamorphosis instantaneas”) as well as an early example of a Walt
Disney metamorphosis toy. Seven original albums with hundreds of illustrated
Liebig Extract advertising cards show a broad range of themes appealing to
popular imagery.
Box 10
Biedermeier cards, between
1790-1820
Scope and Content Note
28 colored engravings and 2 original drawings, most with
moveable parts, depicting mythological, historical, and genre scenes. Of 3
types: Fold-out cards, pull-out cards, and hand-made cards. Cards are numbered
1-28.
Box 10
[Arcadian mythological scene depicting three female
figures and a lyre player, possibly Apollo]
Scope and Content Note
411. A fold-out window discloses a short Romantic poem.
Engraving; 8.5x10cm. [1]
Box 10
[Neoclassical scene with two women and
Eros]
Scope and Content Note
Cästrin Trowitz Sch.; 409. A fold-out window discloses a
short romantic poem; Engraving; 8.5x10cm. [2]
Box 10
Die Vorsicht erhöret
Scope and Content Note
Cüstrin Trowitz Sch.; 403. Card for friendship showing a
classical scene: man in devotional pose and female figure, possibly
personification of Friendship; a fold-out window discloses a short poem; verso
shows a personal dedication; 8x10 cm. [3]
Box 10
[Garden feast and wine toss]
Scope and Content Note
A fold-out window discloses a short poem to wine and to the
joys of life. Engraving; 8x9.5 cm. [4]
Box 10
[Scientist in his lab]
Scope and Content Note
Hand-drawn picture; fold-out window shows children looking
inside the lab; 9x11cm. [5]
Box 10
[Young lady with moveable flower
bouquets]
Scope and Content Note
Nürnberg; bei Riedel; 185. Engraving; 7x8.5cm. [1]
Box 10
[Family greeting card]
Scope and Content Note
Wien; bey G. Gruber.
With caption “Lohnt dich das Glück, bist du zufrieden / So
sey noch vom Geschick” and fold-out window with caption “Familien Glück Dir
beschieden”; a hand-written name, possibly Joh. Zü(mann, in verso; 7.5x9.5cm.
[2]
Box 10
Ich habe dich so lieb
Scope and Content Note
Wien; bey H. F. Müller; No. 108.
Personal dedication in verso; 7x9cm. [3]
Box 10
[Forget-me-not]
Scope and Content Note
Wien; bey H. F. Müller; No. 137. Flower vases display a
pull-out window with picture and caption; 7.5 x 9.5cm. [4]
Box 10
[Guitar with pull-out song]
Scope and Content Note
Wien; bey H. F. Müller; No. 254. Family greetings in verso;
7.5 x 10cm. [5]
Box 10
[Putti and goddess figure]
Scope and Content Note
Wien; bey H. F. Müller; No. 259. Love and friendship card
depicting putti flying over a cloud which turns into a female figure sitting on
a lion and surrounded by putti; 8x 9.5cm. [6]
Box 10
[Old woman turning into young lady]
Scope and Content Note
Wien; bey H. F. Müller; No. 399.
Friendship card; personal dedication in verso; 9 x 7.5cm.
[7]
Box 10
Alle haben masken vor dem Gesicht
Scope and Content Note
Wien; bey H. F. Müller; No. 124. Friendship card with
carnival masks and caption; 7.5 x 9.5cm. [8]
Box 10
[Man playing the harp, with pull-out image of woman
listening]
Scope and Content Note
Wien; b[ey] Ignaz Eder; No. 24. 11.5x9.5cm. [9]
Box 10
[Country scene of man carrying a basket and a cord
on his back]
Scope and Content Note
With pull-out image of woman popping out of the cord;
9x7.5cm. [10]
Box 10
[Winged putto on a cloud sending good
wishes]
Scope and Content Note
Wien; Johann Neidl; No. 161. 9.5x7.2cm. [11]
Box 10
Freude Glück und Wonne
Scope and Content Note
Wien; Johann Neidl; No. 261. Friendship greeting card with
pull-out window which shows little girl; 6.5x8.8cm. [12]
Box 10
[Tower opening to a view of a young dancing
lady]
Scope and Content Note
Peepshow-type card; 11.5x8.5cm. [13]
Box 10
[Male hairdresser with Eros’ attributes: wings and
cloth around his waist]
Scope and Content Note
Wien; Joh. Schönberg; No. 79. 10.3x7.5cm. [14]
Box 10
Aus Achtung Pflicht und Dankbarkeit
Scope and Content Note
Wien; Anton Berka; No. 108. Thank you card; 107x8cm.
[15]
Box 10
Das Bild der frohen Zukunft giebt uns munser Kaiser
Vater Franz
Scope and Content Note
Wien; J. Adamek; 132. With pull-out window depicting
allegories of religion, agriculture, sea and trading, science and the arts;
10.5x8.5cm. [16]
Box 10
[Young man turning into old man]
Scope and Content Note
Wien; bey A. Paterno.
Engraving; personal dedication in verso; 10.5x8.3cm.
[17]
Box 10
[Types by water mills]
Scope and Content Note
Wien; bey J. Bermann; No. 295. 7.5x9.4cm. [18]
Box 10
[Bouquet of flowers hiding an angel]
Scope and Content Note
Augsburg; bey Antor Hauser; 62. Personal dedication in
verso; 10.8x8cm. [19]
Box 10
[Young woman lifting wreath of flowers]
Scope and Content Note
München; bei J. Sidler; 74. Personal dedication on verso;
10.3x8cm. [20]
Box 10
[Countryside scene turning into an interior one with
man playing music]
Scope and Content Note
Prague; J. Seidan; N.o 41. 9.5x12.3cm. [21]
Box 10
[Dutch example with personal dedications]
1796
Scope and Content Note
Netherlands. Hand-drawn water-color.
Box 10
[Dutch example with personal dedications]
1800
Scope and Content Note
Netherlands. Hand-drawn water-color.
Box 11
32 cards showing montage,
undated
Box 11
[Coffee-grinder]
Physical Description:
3x9.5cm. [1]
Box 11
[The black cat]
Scope and Content Note
The Netherlands. Flirtation; 15x9cm. [2]
Box 11
Good old days
Scope and Content Note
Irenco Robert Bier AB; Bastugatan 43, 117 25 Stockholm;
08/69 10 12; Original 1909. Series Good Old Days # 271 [3]
Box 11
[The glass of wine]
Scope and Content Note
Flirtation; foldable postcard; 14x9cm. [4]
Box 11
Bestrafte Neugier!
Scope and Content Note
Foldable postcard; 14x9cm. [5]
Box 11
[Romantic postcard]
Physical Description:
9x14cm. [6]
Box 11
Es hat Alles zwei Seiten! Diese ist die
andere
Physical Description:
9x14cm. [7]
Box 11
St. Valentine's Hamper
Physical Description:
15.5x10cm. [8]
Box 11
The lover's seat, A spoon ‘neath the
moon
Scope and Content Note
Part of the Milton Series; Woolstone Bros.; London E. C.;
The Milton View Novelty; England. Postcard with souvenir views from Saltburn
and handwritten letter. [9]
Box 11
Schnell photographie
Scope and Content Note
Magic photographie; 7.5x5cm. [10]
Box 11
Guguss est mort, Guguss ressuscite
Scope and Content Note
Paris; Au bon marché; Advertisement card; Rue du Bac, Rue de
Sèvres, Rue de Babylone, Rue Velpeau; Imp. A. Mulcey. St. Etienne.
12.5x8.5cm.; Story sequence on two sides of card. [11]
Box 11
Le telephone bar
Scope and Content Note
Paris; Au bon marché; Advertisement card; Rue du Bac, Rue de
Sèvres, Rue de Babylone, Rue Velpeau; Imp. A. Mulcey. St. Etienne.
12.5x8.5cm.; Story sequence on two sides of card. [12]
Box 11
N'éveillez pas le chat qui dort
Scope and Content Note
Paris; Au bon marché; Advertisement card; Rue du Bac, Rue de
Sèvres, Rue de Babylone, Rue Velpeau; Imp. A. Mulcey. St. Etienne.
12.5x8.5cm.
Story sequence on two sides of card. [13]
Box 11
Instantaneas Metamorphosis 11 items
Scope and Content Note
No. 1-10 and one unnumbered. All 10.3x6.3cm. [14-24]
Box 11
Walt Disney's book of puzzle discs,
circa 1950?
Scope and Content Note
A Welcom’ product; by Williams, Ellis & Co.; Ltd.
London, S.E.; copyright Walt Disney Production. No. 1 series. 4 discs of
cutouts to draw 4 Walt Disney's characters; 19x21cm. [25]
Box 11
[Clown]
Scope and Content Note
Germany. Series 302. Game of metamorphosis in whcih the
image changes by sliding part of the card up and down (not functioning).
14x9cm. [26]
Box 11
[Woman admiring flower]
Scope and Content Note
Germany. Series 303. Game of metamorphosis in which the
image changes by sliding part of the card up and down (not functioning).
14x9cm. [27]
Box 11
Hony soit qui mal y pense mais faites attention
commen ça va
Scope and Content Note
Postcard with sequenced story in pullout window; 9x14cm.
[28]
Box 11
La carte postale de 12,003 mots Pierre
Raikoff
Physical Description:
14x9cm. [29]
Box 11
[Hunting scene in three sequences]
Scope and Content Note
Signed A.B. Open: 10.5x22cm. [30]
Box 11
[Adage about laurel on the hat]
Scope and Content Note
With pull-out window and verses in rhyme in German; 14x9cm.
[31]
Box 11
[Mothers-in-law]
Scope and Content Note
With pull-out window and verses in rhyme in German; 14x9cm.
[32]
Box 11
Funny Jungleland Moving-pictures,
1909
Scope and Content Note
W. K. Kellogg; Battle Creek, Mich.; Copyright 1909; Patented
Jan. 15, 1907; Advertisement for Kellogg. Montage book; on the same principle
as Metamorphosis instantaneas, cutouts over a three page foldout; 23x17cm.
Box 12-18
Liebig albums of advertising cards,
1800s
Physical Description:
7 albums
Scope and Content Note
Liebig Company Fleisch Ex-tract; Printed in Argentina,
Uruguay, Germany, and Italy. Series 1-3 and 5-8] in original Liebig collecting
albums; cards illustrate various topics: theater plays, cities and landscapes,
scientists, musicians, races, character types, love themes; children's stories,
exotic places, birds, battles, etc.
Box 12
Album für Liebig-Bilder
Physical Description:
80 pp.,
480 cards;
5x32.5x24cm.
Box 13
Album für Liebig-Bilder
Physical Description:
60pp.,
360 cards;
4x32x24cm.
Box 14
Album für Liebig-Bilder
Physical Description:
120 pp.,
720 cards;
7.5x32x24cm.
Box 15
Liebig-Bilder Album
Physical Description:
50pp.,
300 cards;
3.5x29x27.5cm.
Box 16
Liebig-Bilder
Physical Description:
circa 240pp.,
ca.1040
cards;
2x31.5x27.8cm.
Box 17
Album für Liebig-Bilder
Physical Description:
88pp.,
528 cards;
4.5x34.5x31.8cm.
Box 18
Album für Liebig-Bilder
Physical Description:
78pp.,
488 cards;
4.5x31x28.5cm.
Series IIB.
Silhouettes,
1780-1980
Scope and Content Note
Subseries includes a set of over one hundred 18th-century paper
silhouettes (i.e. megalographs), which depict popular and historical figures,
trades, and characters (see Appendix 3 in the repository's Research Files for
an item listing of the megalographs). There is one metal megalograph made by
Nekes himself, circa 1980. Also in this subseries are cutouts and silhouette
pictures made as advertisements for chocolate and cookies, and given away as
collectibles.
Box 19
Megalographs,
1780-1814
Scope and Content Note
132 megalographs that show historical, religious and mythical
figures of the 18th-century culture, including political leaders, artists,
trades and caricatures. Most are from The Netherlands, most artists are
anonymous. With 8 pp. photocopied articles. See appendix in the repository's
Research file for a detailed list of the megalographs with transcribed titles,
(when applicable/readable).
Box 19
[Chocolat Guerin-Boutron] late
1800s
Scope and Content Note
France; Chocolats de qualité supérieure Guérin-Boutron; 29
Boulevard Poissonnière; Paris; F. Champenoise. One megalographic card for
advertisement of chocolate brand; 6.5x5.5cm.
Box 19
[Portrait du comique prince] late
1800s
Scope and Content Note
France; modele deposé L. G.; Maurice Rouchier, Poitiers;
Paris, Imprimerie Moderne, 47 Boulevard Ménilmontant. One megalographic card
for advertisement of Les biscuits du Poitou; Instructions read: “Découpez les
parties noires de cette Tête vous aurez par l'ombre le portrait du comique
Prince.”
Box 19
[Bust of woman]
circa
1980
Scope and Content Note
Germany; made by Werner Nekes for demonstration. One metal
megalograph; made on a brass leaf; 9.5x8cm.
Series IIC.
Transformative images,
1820-1920
Scope and Content Note
This subseries contains over one hundred early 20th-century
postcards mostly of European cities and sites (including German military
propaganda) which, when backlit, dissolve from day to night scenes, a modern
development of the vue d'optique. Also included are five polyorama discs
(lacking the proper viewing device), and a set of twenty prints by William
Spooner, which he called protean because, with the use of lighting, the images
change. These depict English monuments, landscapes, and public events as well
as biblical and war scenes.
Box 20
Backlit postcards,
1890-1920
Scope and Content Note
129 translucent postcards of day-to-night scenes, arranged
geographically. Produced in Germany and France. Number of postcards of each
topic noted in parenthesis.
Box 20
German cities
Scope and Content Note
Aachen (1); Berlin (13); Bingen (1); Blankensee (1); Bremen
(2); Charlottenburg (1); Chemnitz (1); Drachenfels (1); Ems (1); Frankfurt (1);
Hamburg (9) (1st is planned for exhibition); Hannover (5); Heidelberg (1);
Hildesheim (1); Insterburg (1); Kaiser Wilhelm Kanal (1); Karlsruhe (1); Köln
(29); Leipzig (1); Mainz (4); München (7); Nürnberg (3); Potsdam (1);
Riesengebirge (2); Rüdesheim (1); Schlangenbad (1); Schneekoppe (1); Stuttgart
(1); Weimar (1); Wiesbaden (4).
Box 20
Non-German cities
Scope and Content Note
Barcelona (5) (1st is planned for exhibition); Bradford (1);
Glasgow (4); Lilienstein (1); London (2); Paris (4); Philadelphia (1); St.
Louis, Missouri (1); Tölz (1); Wien (2).
Box 20
Miscellanea
Scope and Content Note
German military propaganda (8); New year's greeting card
(1).
Box 21
Polyorama discs
Scope and Content Note
5 round paper discs (viewer not included); 1-3 on metal frame;
4-5 lacking frames; diam. 8cm. [Villa by lake]; [Castle and village]; [Harbor
scene with windmill in background]; [Church interior]; [Doge palace,
Venice]
Box 21
Spooner Protean prints,
1820-1840
Physical Description:
22 prints
Scope and Content Note
London; William Spooner; 377 Strand. Prints that change when
held against a light.
Box 21
[A snow scene that, on being held before a strong
light, changes to a perspective of a tunnel]
Scope and Content Note
Spooner Protean view no. 2. Mounted on board; colored;
21x28.5cm.
Box 21
St. George's Chapel Windsor Castel that changes to
the splendid ceremony of the interment of King William the Fourth
London
Scope and Content Note
Spooner's Protean View no. 8; William Spooner; 377 Strand.
18x14cm.
Box 21
[An Italian scene that changes to a moonlight view
with a funeral procession]
Scope and Content Note
Spooner protean view no. 9. Mounted on board; colored;
21x28.5cm.
Box 21
[An Italian scene that changes to a moonlight view
with a funeral procession]
Scope and Content Note
Spooner protean view no. 9. Same as above; not colored; not
mounted on board; without backing tissue paper.
Box 21
Green park
Scope and Content Note
Spooner protean view no.11. Title and series in pencil.
mounted on board; colored; 21x28.5cm.
Box 21
An interior of a cathedral with the celebration of
midnight mass
Scope and Content Note
Spooner protean view no. 23. Not mounted; colored;
18.5x22.5
Box 21
The new house of parliament, which seems to rise
from the ruins and conflagration of the old buildings
Scope and Content Note
Spooner protean view no. 25. Not mounted on board; not
colored; 22x19cm.
Box 21
St. Paul Cathedral shewing the booths of the city
companies & Christ's Hospital on the Queens visit to Guildhall
Scope and Content Note
Spooner protean view no. 26. Captions read: “Victoria our
friend / Edward our founder”; not mounted on board; not colored;
21.6x19.3cm.
Box 21
Poet's corner, Westminster Abbey, changing to the
shades of Shakespeare, Scott & Byron
Scope and Content Note
Spooner protean view no. 29. Not mounted on board; colored;
22x19cm.
Box 21
St. Jean d'Acri changing to the bombardment by the
British & allied fleet,
Nov.r 3.d 1840
Scope and Content Note
Spooner protean view no. 39; R. S. Harst, lith, 244 Strand.
Ships names read: Thunder, Phenix; not mounted on board; colored;
19x22.5cm.
Box 21
Jordan
Scope and Content Note
Scriptural [protean view] no. 3; in pencil. Colored cutout;
15x18.3cm.
Box 21
[The city of Jerusalem changing to the entry of Our
Saviour]
Scope and Content Note
Scriptural protean view no. 4; by G. F. Bragg; Printed by W.
Kohler. Not colored; not cut out; 19x22cm.
Box 21
[The city of Jerusalem changing to the entry of Our
Saviour]
Scope and Content Note
[Scriptural protean view no. 4; by G. F. Bragg; Printed by
W. Kohler].
Same as above but without title and publishing information
because cut. Colored; 15x18.2cm.
Box 21
Haverford Priory
Scope and Content Note
Spooner's transparencies no. 2. Mounted on cardboard;
colored; 21x28.5cm.
Box 21
Haddon Hall-Derbyshire
Scope and Content Note
Spooner's transparencies no. 6. Mounted on cardboard;
colored; 21.5x28.5cm.
Box 21
[Winter changing to summer]
Scope and Content Note
Mounted on cardboard; colored; 16x20cm.
Box 21
Chartres cathedral
Scope and Content Note
Title in pencil; not mounted on cardboard; colored;
15.2x17.5cm.
Box 21
[Coronation of queen]
Scope and Content Note
Not mounted on cardboard; colored; 18.5x14.3cm.
Box 21
[Welcome V. R.]
Scope and Content Note
Banners in the scene read “Welcome V. R.”; not mounted on
cardboard; colored; 16.3x18.5cm.
Box 21
[Night scene of church]
Scope and Content Note
Not mounted on cardboard; colored; 14x18cm.
Box 21
[Tunnel changing to a celebration in a
park]
Scope and Content Note
Unreadable caption in pencil; not mounted on cardboard;
colored; 14x19cm.
Box 21
[City scene]
Scope and Content Note
Not mounted on cardboard; colored; 12x17cm.
Series III.
Artifacts,
1700-
circa 1980
Scope and Content Note
Series includes optical instruments and artists’ aids as well as
viewers designed to exhibit prints (including those in Series I and II) while
creating special effects through backlighting, movement or transformation.
An 18th-century mirrored cone of Dutch origin is used to transform
and view the accompanying 13 water-colored anamorphic pictures. The anamorphic
images are possibly part of a series introduced by the title/proverb in Old
Dutch “Verwagt nog beeter” (“expect even better”). The zograscope is used to
enlarge and view non-pricked vues d'optique. Artists’ aids include a box-form
camera obscura used for drawing images from nature, a camera lucida and a
pocket-size Lorrain mirror. Another camera obscura in the form of a large
wooden book perhaps had a twofold purpose as a camera obscura and as a viewer
for non-backlit vues d'optique.
Objects that functioned as toys and games include montage toys
(functioning by simple juxtaposition of images or parts of images, such as a
myriorama by Friedrich Campe, a physionotrace, and a number of mica overlays),
flipbooks and rebus games, as well as moving toys (e.g. the magnetic lottery or
“Magic painter,” which rotates by means of a hidden magnet, the polymorphoscope
with a multifaceted rotating lens which multiplies the single image painted on
a glass slide, and a Spanish-made metal figure, moved by balancing a
counterweight). A florentine stone, although a natural object, has a pattern
that resembles the profile of a metropolis. A one-lens magic lantern (the
English Praestantia, by the Riley Brothers) is accompanied by 18 slides of
different sizes which represent the variety of slides made for the 19th-century
commercial market.
Peepshows are represented by a variety of three-dimensional paper
theaters ranging from perspective theaters designed Martin Engelbrecht (see
Appendix 2) in the 18th century, to early-20th century paper souvenirs
illustrating foreign places, legendary events, religious icons and fairy-tales
characters. A particularly detailed item in this category is a many layered
peepshow from 18th-century central Europe depicting a sumptuous religious
festival. Another kind of paper theater is represented by the Ombres Chinoises,
a popular miniature shadow theater from France which includes four backdrops.
These depict theatrical shows such as the serpentine dance (an allusion to Loie
Fuller), a town carnival, and the grand fountains at Versailles.
There are two sets of late 19th-century thaumatropes (i.e. “wheel
of wonder”) from Germany and from France. Thaumatropes are small paper discs
(with a diameter of approximately 2 1/2 inches) with related images on each
side which merge into one another when they are twirled by the strings attached
at the sides of the discs. Also included is a set of moving panoramas, i.e. the
discs to be viewed with a phenakistoscope, included in this collection, made in
the 1830's by the English company S. W. Fores Optical Illusions. These panorama
discs, of approximately 8” in diameter, depict sequential scenes displayed in
segments and are viewed while rotating in front of a mirroring surface. The
collection holds another set of three discs made in Germany in the same
period.
Two different types of hand-held stereoscopes are included in this
series: one based on Oliver Wendell Holmes’ model, and one made by David
Brewster (1781-1868) in England. Two pictures (one from Germany and one from
England) accompany the Holmes’ type stereoscope. These slides display two
separate images adjacent to each other (for example a bird and a cage) which,
when viewed through the stereoscope, merge into one whole scene. A third
stereoscope in the collection is the large column stereo viewer (Box 75**). A
set of about 80 glass stereoscopic slides depict panoramic views mostly of
European landscapes, city monuments and wars (with a few views of Middle
Eastern sites).
Six viewers designed to view backlit images include: two polyorama
panoptiques in large and small formats, a moving panorama, meant to be backlit
with candlelight and depicting a tour through London's squares, and a French
viewing stand with twelve oval backlit prints of famous cities and monuments
including Paris, London, and Constantinople. In this group also is included a
15 ft-long rolled panorama depicting the route from Hamburg to Altona, a
lithophane lamp-shade, and a wooden foldable viewing box with two lenses (to
allow two viewers at the same show) for backlit vues d'optique.
Box 22
Konus-spigel,
1700
Scope and Content Note
The Netherlands. Cone viewer for anamorphic images; 7.8x8.4 cm.;
in original box.
Box 23
Anamorphic pictures,
1700
Scope and Content Note
13 square hand drawn, watercolor anamorphic pictures, with
hand-written numbers in parenthesis (1-4, 6, 8-12, 15, 17, 18). Contemporary
with cone viewer in box 22. On verso of all pictures appear initials in ink:
AVM. ca.27x27 cm.
Box 24
Camera lucida = Chambre claire universelle,
undated
Scope and Content Note
With 12 lenses in box; 28x6x2.5 cm. box.
Box 25
Nouvelle Chambre Claire Universelle,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Par P. Bervil-le; 25, Rue de la Chaussée -d'Antin; [Ed. Hemmelé
?]; Paris. Booklet. On cover: Notice explicative sur la chambre claire
universelle brevetée S. G. D. G.; Appareil permanent de reduire, agrandir,
copier des paysages, portraits, documents, objets etc. rapidement et exactement
(25 pp. with some illustrations); 17x12.3 cm.
Box 26
Lorrain mirror,
1800s
Scope and Content Note
German? Used by artists for translating colors into graded
shades for drawing; also reduces scale; 8x7x1.5 cm.
Box 27
Box-form camera obscura,
1860
Scope and Content Note
La nature calquée directement; B.A. Paris; 9359 Imp. Hemmerlé et
Cie. With instructions in French and drawers for supplies; portable;
13.5x14.5x24.8 cm. and lens tube 4x4 cm.
Rectangular wooden box divided with biconvex lens, a mirror
(displayed diagonally at 45o across the area), glass on the upper surface of
the box, and a lid that can be lifted. Instructions in French suggest placing
tracing paper on the glass to trace the image reflected by the mirror. Contains
two small compartments for tools storage; 13x4.5x4.5 cm. and 13x4.5x3 cm. Below
these are two small drawers, 13x11.5x3 cm.
Box 28**
Theatre de l'Univers,
circa
1750
Scope and Content Note
Made in France. A camera obscura shaped like a book; title on
“spine”; possibly used also as a viewer for vues d'optique; 10x36x55 cm.; when
opened to 90 degrees, turns into an optical device. A vue d'optique placed
inside is reflected in the mirror (10.5x13 cm.) which is angled at 45 degrees
on the top of the book cover and is joined to a bi-convex lens (5x10 cm.); when
unfolded the book-form camera obscura measures 56 cm. in height.
Box 29**
Zograscope,
circa
1750
Scope and Content Note
Made in Holland. Used to view, focus, and enlarge prints. Also
known in contemporary sources as “show glass” or “diagonal mirror,” it was
named zograscope by instrument-maker George Adams; wood and glass; 26x51x20 cm.
diam.
Box 30
Florentine / Tuscany pictorial stone,
undated
Scope and Content Note
With illusionary landscape; 13x8.5x1 cm.
See also Box 1* folder 11 for print of florentine stone and of
dendrites. Cfr. Baltrusaitis, Aberrations. Chapter 2, Pictorial stones.
Box 31
Friedr[ich] Protzen's Kupfer Schablonen,
1880
Scope and Content Note
Germany; Kupfer-Schablonen- Fabri-ck von Friedr. Protzen; Unter
den Linden 24. Bel-Etage im Gerold'-schen Hause; Ber-lin.
Children's game of 17 copper plates used as stencils for
painting; 2.3x12x7.3 cm.; plates circa 6x7 cm. and smaller; with original
charcoal pencil.
Box 32
[Magnetic lottery]
1770
Scope and Content Note
Austria or The Netherlands.Wood; On verso of box hand-written
caption reads: A French ... / This is 80 / years old / 1894 / M. F. Walker/
Clefton House / Searbis; 11.5x12.2x2.5cm. Plus 4 colored wood slides with
pictures on both faces, depicting: landscapes, 2 still lives, and a portrait;
10.5x11 cm.
Repository has another copy of this item: see Le peintre abile,
or, Magic painter, Special Collections accn. no. 96.R.58.
Box 33
Polymorphoscope,
1840
Scope and Content Note
England. With faceted and convex lens; 23x8x7 cm. (3x 4.5 cm.
diameter viewer).
Plus 10 slides, hand-painted on glass; 5.5x7.5cm. and smaller:
1. bees; 2. parrot; 3. butterfly; 4. clown's face; 5. wind-mill; 6. old woman
face; 7. man and woman; 8. two men with joining noses; 9. swan [cracked glass];
10. [Untitled].
Box 34
Pop-out card game,
circa
1850-1890
Scope and Content Note
France. 16 cards show historical scenes with 8 pop-out holes
which contain questions and answers; 13x18.5cm.
Box 35
Rebus game,
circa
1700-1750
Scope and Content Note
France. 23 playing cards illustrate rebus images, plus a card
with explanations. Original set of 24 cards, No. 19 missing; 11.5x8.2cm.
Box 36
Myriorama,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Germany; Nürnberg; bei Fredrich Campe. 16 parts; Classical ruins
landscape; 19.5x7cm.
Box 37
Physionotrace,
circa
1800-1850
Scope and Content Note
England. Man's profile on paper plus cutouts to change his
physiognomy and dress (12 noses, 2 hats, 1 uniform); picture drawn on
cardboard; 12.8x10.2cm.
Box 38
Comic metamorphoses for boys = Komisches
Metamorphosenspiel für Knaben = Les métamorphoses jeu comique pour les garçons
= Komik. Verrandelings Spel voor Jongens,
circa
1820
Scope and Content Note
Made in England or Germany. Wooden box with cards in three
segments from letter “a” through “m” to create various figure (horizontal
montage game); hand-colored titles in four languages; initials Frk. in corner;
21x13.5cm.
Box 39
Spanish animation toy,
1890
Scope and Content Note
A man with a cane, made of metal stands balanced by a
counterweight; 23.5x16cm.; 45cm. long.
Box 40
Metamorphosis / Montage, Flip books,
1840
Physical Description:
2 books
Box 40
Klappbilderbuch so oder so,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Germany. 12. heitere Doppel-bilder gezeichnet v. Leo-nhardt
Diefenbach u. a. Kunstlern. 12 double pages; 18x21 cm.
Box 40
Neues Verwandlungs-Bilderbuch : zur Unterhaltung und
Belustingung der heiteren Jugend mit sechs Doppelbildern in lithograph,
undated
Scope and Content Note
Farbendruck, Germany. Verlag von J. F. Shcreiber [sic];
Esslingen; Original Steinzei-chnungen von Maler W. von Breitschwert.
Title page is a xerox; 27x22 cm.
Box 40
Magic picture book = Bilder-Zauberei = Livre de la magie
graphique,
1860
Scope and Content Note
Germany; Nürnberg; D. u. V. v. Tauber & Geek. 12cm.
Box 40
Novelty! Metamorphoses Picture-Book =
Verwandlungs-Bilder-Buch = Nouveauté! Livre de Metamorphoses,
1850
Scope and Content Note
Germany. Foldout in three parts with montage cutouts in the
central section.
Box 41
Paper overlays,
circa
1750-1790
Scope and Content Note
England. Written caption: “heads drawn by Samuel Archdale
Beddouse”; Burritt and Hudson 85 Cheap-side; blindstamp.
Head with characters; consists of 39 hand-drawn paper overlays
with identification or comments and 1 portrait on cardboard; in modern green
box: 21x119 cm.
Box 42
[Portrait with costumes]
circa
1700
Scope and Content Note
7 oval mica overlays (8.5x6.5 cm.); and 1 oval paper portrait,
with a walnut box; 13x10 cm. The mica overlays have costumes painted on them
which, when laid on top of the portrait, change the character of the
portrait.
Box 43
[Indian trades]
1820-1860
Scope and Content Note
11 mica overlays illustrate Indian trades 11.5x8 cm.; and 1
card; 11.5x7.5 cm.;
Box 44
[Birds]
1800s
Physical Description:
1. 10.8x15.3cm.; (in bad
condition)
2. 10.8x15 cm.; (in bad
condition)
3. 11x15.5 cm.; (in good
condition)
Scope and Content Note
English. 3 single mica cards depict birds
Box 45
[Purse-shaped montage]
circa
1750-1790
Scope and Content Note
4 cards and portrait; military uniforms and ethnic costumes;
6.5x7 cm.; cards: 6.2x6.2 cm.
Box 46**
Magic lantern slides,
undated
Physical Description:
18 slides
Scope and Content Note
#6-18 slides are framed; some have mechanic devices to rotate or
move the images. 1-5 are smaller single-glass slides without any mechanism to
produce movement.
Box 46**
[Harlequin: 2 sequences]
Scope and Content Note
With French text written on slide.
Box 46**
[Racial and ethnic types]
Physical Description:
2 slides
Box 46**
[Cartoon depicting man smoking and causing an
explosion]
Scope and Content Note
Numbered 5-8.
Box 46**
[Boat at sea]
Scope and Content Note
Newton & Co. Opticians; Fleet St.; London.
Box 46**
[Chromatrope]
Scope and Content Note
Newton & Co. Opticians; Fleet St.; London.
Box 46**
[Two characters looking at each other]
Box 46**
[Childrens’ parade]
Scope and Content Note
Newton & Co. Opticians; Fleet St.; London.
Box 46**
[Magician's tricks: 3 sequences]
Box 46**
[Three landscapes]
Scope and Content Note
N.B., Black background is chipping.
Box 46**
[Burlesque scene of man riding a donkey: 3
sequences]
Box 46**
[Phantasmagoria: 3 sequences]
Box 46**
[Caricatures and types]
Physical Description:
4 slides
Box 47**
Praestantia,
circa
1885-1900
Scope and Content Note
Bradford, England; Riley Brothers. Magic lantern with one lens
(diam. 4.5cm.); iron, brass, and glass, with electric bulb; 23.5x13x35.5cm. Top
part of magic lantern has label: M. D. & S. J. Wilks / 26 Errwood Avenue /
Temple Meads / Buxton / Derbys. SK17 9BD / Tel. Buxton 3821. Date from Magic
images, p. 27.
Box 48
World of tomorrow : New York World's Fair 1789-1939,
1939
Scope and Content Note
Copyright by Elizabeth Sage Hare & Warren Chappeu.
Proscenium plus 4 layers and backdrop; 12.5x16.5x0.5 cm. (when folded).
Box 48
Le petit chaperon rouge,
1939
Scope and Content Note
Paris; Au bon mar-ché; Maison Aristide Boucicaut. Small
peepshow; color; N.B., 1 small figure has separated from the peepshow,
included.
Box 48
Mère du Sauveur, priez pour nous,
1939
Scope and Content Note
Paris; Villemur, éditeur; Rue de la Harpe, 55. Paper doily and
peepshow with image of the Madonna; pricked; 11.5x7 cm.
Box 48
Nansen in the Polar regions,
1939
Scope and Content Note
Same as in Box 49 below; not mounted.
Box 49
Three small peepshows,
1920s
Scope and Content Note
London, Paris, New York; Raphael Tuck & Sons, Ltd. Printed
in Germany. Each 10x5x8.5 cm.
Box 49
Nansen in the Polar regions
Scope and Content Note
See also Box 48.
Box 49
Lake Lucerne, Switzerland.
Box 50
[Religious festival]
circa
1830-1875
Scope and Content Note
Elaborate peepshow, with 62 accordion folds, that expands to
1.30 m. x 47 cm. high. Origin unknown (Northern France or Netherlands?).
Hand-painted Church interior displays a religious feast.
Box 51
Engelbrecht perspective theaters: large format,
1700s
Physical Description:
7 theaters
Scope and Content Note
Most cited in La camera dei sortilegi, as noted.
Box 51
[Praesentation einer Hirsch-Jagd]
Scope and Content Note
Series no. 14; sheets [89], 90-94; 5 parts and backdrop. Cfr.
La camera dei sortilegi, p. 60.
Box 51
[Praesentation eines scharffen Rencontre]
Scope and Content Note
Series no. 18; sheets 114-118; 3 parts and backdrop. Cfr. La
camera dei sortilegi, p. 60.
Box 51
Präsentation der Italiänischen Comödianten,
circa
1700
Scope and Content Note
I. Wachmuht inv. et del. Series n.o 22; sheets 137-142;
proscenium and 4 parts and 2 different backdrops (both numbered 142, a garden
view and the background theater interior); large format, part of 20x20 cm. Cfr.
La camera dei sortilegi, p. 49 and p. 60.
Box 51
[Praesentation des Markus Platzes in
Venedig]
Scope and Content Note
Series no. 35; sheets [225], [...], [...], [...], [231];
proscenium and 3 parts and backdrop. Cfr. La camera dei sortilegi, p. 60.
Box 51
Representation d'un joutte sur l'eau
Scope and Content Note
Alternate title: [Praesentation eines schönen Fischer
Stechen]
Series no. 47; sheets ; 2 parts and backdrop. Cfr. La camera
dei sortilegi, p. 61.
Box 51
[Theater]
Scope and Content Note
Series no. 48; sheets 317, 319, 320, [321], [322]; proscenium
and 4 parts and backdrop.
Box 51
[Der Bethlehemitische Kindermort]
Scope and Content Note
Series no. 57; sheets [379], 380-385; proscenium and 5 parts
and backdrop; colored engraving; 17x19cm. Cfr. La camera dei sortilegi, p. 37
and p. 61; also at Milan, Museo della Scala; Munich, Bayerische
National-museum; and Augsburg, Staats und Stadt Bibliothek.
Box 52
Engelbrecht perspective theaters: medium format,
circa
1720
Physical Description:
12 theaters
Scope and Content Note
Theaters are partial, with pieces missing.
Box 52
[Roman military camp]
circa
1720
Scope and Content Note
5 parts and 1 backdrop and 1 synthesis sheet; hand colored on
parchment, this set is constituted of two originally separate sets, which
however present the same handwriting on the verso of the various layers: layers
1, 2, 3, belong to one set; layers 4-6 belong to another; 8.5X13 cm.
Box 52
[Channel with northern city in background]
Scope and Content Note
4 parts (2 missing). Cfr. La camera dei sortilegi, p.57.
Box 52
[Court life]
Scope and Content Note
3 parts and backdrops.
Box 52
[Villa with garden]
Scope and Content Note
1 part and backdrop.
Box 52
[Kitchen interior]
Scope and Content Note
1 part and synthesis sheet.
Box 52
[Village with ruins]
Scope and Content Note
3 parts and synthesis sheet; possibly part 2 belongs to a
different set.
Box 52
[Synagogue lectern]
Scope and Content Note
1 part.
Box 52
[Joseph into the pit]
Scope and Content Note
2 parts.
Box 52
[Daniel in the lions’ den]
Scope and Content Note
1 backdrop.
Box 52
[Christ's life]
Scope and Content Note
1 part and backdrop.
Box 52
[Winter]
Scope and Content Note
1 part; copy of item #4 in Box 53, 3rd layer.
Box 52
[Spring]
Scope and Content Note
2 parts and synthesis sheet; copy of item #1 in Box 53, layers
2 and 4.
Box 53
The Four Seasons, Engelbrecht perspective theaters:
medium format,
circa
1720
Box 53
[Spring]
Scope and Content Note
5 parts and backdrop.
Box 53
Perspectivische Vortellung eines schönen
Garten
Scope and Content Note
Summer. 5 parts and backdrop.
Box 53
Perspectivische Vorstellung des Englischen Grüsses und
der Heimsuchung Maria
Scope and Content Note
Fall. Proscenium and 5 parts and backdrop.
Box 53
[Winter]
Scope and Content Note
5 parts and backdrop.
Box 54
Engelbrecht viewer,
1800s
Scope and Content Note
Augsburg. With glass lens and opaque white glass lid. A
horizontal wooden box with a modern lens and internal grooves to hold the
layers of an Engelbrecht theater.
Box 55
Thaumatropes disks,
circa
1900
Physical Description:
5 disks
Scope and Content Note
England. 6.4 cm. diam. each.
1-2. The juggler (2 copies); 3-4. Jack in the box (2 copies); 5.
Get cracking
Box 55
Jeu du Thaumatrope,
1890
Scope and Content Note
France; Paris. Académie des arts graphiques; 18, Rue Malher.
10.5x16.5x2 cm. 10 paper thaumatropes, in cardboard box diameter 7.5 cm. 1. Au
cirque; 2. Una grande représentation; 3. L'Oiseau e'énvole; 4. L'Aquarium; 5.
La Malle des Indes; 6. Il était une Bergère; 7. La force prime le droit; 8. Sur
le pont d'Avignon; 9. C'est la Mère Michel; 10. Steeple-Chase.
Box 56
Handle for Moving panorama
Scope and Content Note
Aka spindle doodle. Made by the repository to be used with
panorama in Box 57
Box 57
Fores's Moving Panorama or Optical Illusions, giving
life and activity to inanimate objects : a nut for philosophers; to be viewed
with a phenakistoscope ,
circa
1833-1834
Scope and Content Note
London; S. W. Fores Optical Illu-sions, Publ.d at 41, Picadilly;
S. W. Fores. Cardboard portfolio with set of 7 large English disks; 23.5 cm.
diam., and 3 small German hand-colored disks (unknown maker); 19 cm. diam.
Box 58
Ombres Chinoises,
1880
Scope and Content Note
France, Paris; L. Saussine Éditeur. Large box with frame and
groove to hold placards and rolls used to hang paper, 38x54x9.5 cm.; and 4
placards (paper on wood frame, fragile, colored lithograph?, badly ripped).
1. Danse serpentine dans la cage aux lions, signed Ludovic,
35x42cm.; 2. A Victor Hugo, 35x42 cm.; 3. [Town carnival] 35x42 cm.; 4. Grand
eaux a Versailles; signed Ludovic, 35x42 cm.
Box 59
Wooden hand stereoscope,
1860s or later
Scope and Content Note
Holmes type, made in Germany? 19x32x10 cm.; lens 8x16 cm.
Box 59
Stereoscopic cards
Physical Description:
2 cards
Scope and Content Note
When viewed through the stereoscope, the two parts of the image
overlap, creating an optical illusion.
Box 59
[Cage and bird]
Scope and Content Note
Germany; Series no. 4.
Box 59
[Man at table waiting to be served by woman who is
entering the room with a dish]
Scope and Content Note
London; William Spooner, 379 Strand; Series no 5. Caption:
“Optical transpositions: great expectations, a magic novelty for the
stereoscope.”
Box 60
Stereo viewer for backlit images,
1880
Scope and Content Note
Brewster type, made in England. Wood; 11x17x15 cm.
Box 61
Glass stereo slides,
1850s-1970s
Scope and Content Note
Images of expositions and panoramic views of European
landscapes, made by various manufacturers. 81 slides in 4 small boxes (a-d)
organized by country in alphabetical order. See list of individual slides in
the repositories’ Research files.
Box 61
(a) Austria, Bohemia, England, France
Box 61
(b) Germany, Greece, Italy - art and
architecture
Box 61
(c) Italy - war, Middle East
Box 61
(d) Spain, unidentified places
Box 62
51 metal stereograph plates
Scope and Content Note
To be used in the column stereo-viewer as ballast [see Box
75**]. Not original Nekes’ material; 17x8.5 cm.
Box 63**
Lithophanie lamp shade
Physical Description:
Porcelain; 19.6x21.5 cm. diam.
Box 64**
Lithophanie lamp stem, silver,
Physical Description:
36x15 cm.
brass;
21.5x14 cm.
Box 65**
In excursion to London,
1880
Scope and Content Note
Made in England. A panorama known as an “eidophusikon” or
“moving panorama” with views of London, in a viewer for backlit prints. Wood
and paper; candle holder in back of viewer. 18x17x9 cm.
Box 66
Längenpanorama Reise von Hamburg nach Altona,
1823
Scope and Content Note
A panorama scroll, made in Germany. 8x492 cm.
Box 66
Peter Suhrs, Panorama einer Reise von Hamburg nach
Altona und zurück,
1909
Scope and Content Note
Erklärt von Dr. J. Heckscher; mit 7 Abbildungen. Berlin W. 30;
Hermann Barsdorf Verlag; 1909. 136 pp.; 24x15.5 cm. Guidebook to a
panorama.
Box 67**
Voyage Où Il Vous Plaira,
1860
Scope and Content Note
Viewer for backlit prints, with prints. Made in France. Prints
are stamped with the name J. C. Nicolai. Viewing stand for front and back
lighting, and 12 oval backlit prints:
1. Versailles; 2. Londres, La Tamise; 3. Somerset House, Bernard
Castle; 4. Notre Dame de Paris; 5. Tunnel de Rolleboise (Chemin du Hàvre);
6-7.Constantinople; 8. Venise; 9. La Tamise et le Tunnel; 10. Arsenal de Toulon
; 11. Les Bains de Dieppe; 12. Lugano.
Box 68**
Viewer for backlit prints,
circa
1750
Scope and Content Note
Vues d'optique viewer for two people, aka Guckkasten, made in
Holland. Foldable; wood; h. 32.8 cm; w. 49.5 cm; d. 96 cm.
Box 69
Polyorama panoptique,
1850
Scope and Content Note
Brevet d'invention S. G.tie du Gouv.t; French.
Viewer for backlit prints composed of 3 parts: viewing lens on
mahogany frame, a bellows (to regulate focus) and the slide box (slides are
inserted from above); 12.5x16x14 cm.; paper, wood, and fabric; magnifying glass
measures 3x3 cm. Cfr. Il mondo nuovo, p.103 and p.185. See backlit prints in
Box 69.
Box 69
Backlit prints,
1850
Physical Description:
4 items
Scope and Content Note
Images on paper in wood frames; with colored backing paper and
pin-pricks. For use in the Polyorama panoptique, Box 69.
[Venice: Doge palace] badly ripped, 14.5x9.5 cm.; La nuite de
Noël en Angleterre, 14.5x9.5 cm.; Regent Street: la Bourse (Londres) 14.5x9.5
cm.; [Castle] 14.5x9.5 cm.
Box 70**
Polyorama panoptique et diagraphique pour dessiner
d'apres nature,
1851
Scope and Content Note
France; Brevet d'invention S. G.tie du Gouv.t. Used also as a
camera obscura. Viewer for translucent backlit images, composed of 3 parts:
viewing lens on mahogany frame, a bellows (to regulate focus) and the slide
box. Slides are inserted from the side to be viewed. Paper, wood, and fabric;
16.5 h. x 46 l. x 21.6 w. cm. See Box 7 for 18 images to be used with this type
of viewer.
Box 75**
Wooden column stereo-viewer, late
1880s
Scope and Content Note
Made in France. Floor-standing. See Box 62** for metal plates to
be used with stereo-viewer for ballast.
