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Vue Perspective du pont et du Port de la Ville de Pekin, Ville de la Chine.

Vue Perspective du pont et du Port de la Ville de Pekin, Ville de la Chine.

a Paris chez Daumont rue de St. Martin [n.d., c.1770].
Hand coloured copper engraving, image 260 x 400mm (10¼ x 15¾"). Trimmed into plate at bottom, laid on card in near-contemporary presentation, ink ownership inscription 'E J Myles' on reverse.
A prospect of the bridge and port of Peking, with several figures to foreground beside the water, loading boats with goods carried by ox-driven carts. The title in in reverse above the image identifies this as a vüe-d'optique, designed to be viewed through a zograscope, an optical viewer.
[Ref: 55456]  £260.00


 

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