A diorama consisting of 6 color-lithographed leaves (two of cardboard, four of paper), mounted on tissue-paper accordion folds, that give a perspective view through a peep hole of the Berlin exhibition of 1896; final leaf has a translucent cut-out section
Publisher:
Verlag von Oscar Michaelis
Subject (Name):
Berliner Gewerbe-Ausstellung (1896)
Subject (Topic):
Exhibitions., Exhibitions--Germany--Berlin--Pictorial works., and Peep shows--Specimens
Wrapped in folded brown paper., Title from ms. note on paper wrapping., A peep show consisting of six leaves (leaves 2 to 6 are numbered), printed on stiff paper, hand-colored and cut out., Depicts a three-dimensional whaling scene with large boats and small, whalers, whales, a shipwreck, and a mountainous landscape in the background and on the sides., and Originally viewed in a box that held the leaves separately in individual planes.
BEIN 2010 1620: Stamps with ms. numbers on versos of leaves., Title supplied by cataloger., A peep show consisting of six engraved leaves, card-backed, hand-colored and cut away., Depicts a three-dimensional artist's studio scene with an apprentice grinding colors, one artist at his easel, three artists sketching a classical statue, another artist putting finishing touches on a painting, and two customers being shown canvases for purchase., and Background leaf numbered: 6.
A diorama consisting of 6 engraved cardboard leaves that give a perspective view through a peep hole of a contemporary public boulevard, a walled middle-European town in the background, with a lively crowd. The first panel apparently shows the bordello's exterior, to the left a man leans out of a window to admire a woman (who takes a rose from a boy) and to the right one man steps from the door as another, hand seeking out his purse, is about to proceed in. In other panels may be seen young women pointing men toward the doorways or leading them there
Description:
BEIN 2009 1828: Plates numbered on verso in ms. and Illustrations hand colored.
Title supplied by cataloger., An optical box (or boîte d'optique) for viewing peepshows; accompanied by 10 peepshows displaying a variety of scenes., Peepshows possibly engraved and printed by Martin Engelbrecht of Augsburg., To use the box, the viewer looked through the magnifying lens and saw, reflected in a mirror placed at a 45-degree angle, a three-dimensional scene formed from a series of six layered images., Each of the 10 accompanying peepshow sets contains six views; all of the views are printed on stiff paper, are hand colored and have been cut out except for the sixth which forms the background and has the number 6 printed at the bottom. In some cases view 5 also has the number printed at the bottom., Each peepshow is housed in an individual packet of paper with a manuscript title in Dutch; the packets have been hand numbered nos. 1-9 and no. 11 and, on the verso of each view, the set number and the view number have been added in ms., and Within the background view of set no. 6, the letter H is printed in the lower left corner.
BEIN 2010 1621: Stamps with ms. numbers on versos of leaves., Title supplied by cataloger., A peep show consisting of six engraved leaves, card-backed, hand-colored and cut away., Depicts a three-dimensional printing shop scene including pressmen working at wooden presses, compositors setting type, and a proof reader seated at a table., and Background leaf numbered: 6.
Title supplied by cataloger., A peep show consisting of five engraved leaves, card-backed, hand-colored and cut away., Three-dimensional scene depicting a sugar plantation (probably on Saint-Domingue) with slaves at work and several overseerers; engraved by Martin Engelbrecht?, and First leaf numbered: 1.
BEIN 2010 1626: Stamps with ms. numbers on versos of leaves., Title supplied by cataloger., A peep show consisting of six engraved leaves, card-backed, hand-colored and cut away., Background leaf numbered: 6. Printed at bottom of leaf 6: C.P. Maj. C. M. Eng. exc. A.V., An adaptation of a Bernard Picart illustration for Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde, published in Amsterdam in 1723., Depicts a three-dimensional synagogue scene including the consecration of the synagogue and the reading of the Torah., and Synagogue depicted is the Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam.
