Vue de Salem.
by [View: Massachusetts: Salem.] Leizelt
- Used
- Very Good
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Scarborough, Maine, United States
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About This Item
Colorful Revolutionary War-era View of Salem, Mass... sort of
This is one of a series of engravings of Boston, New York, and a few other important American cities done as perspective views or "vues d'optique" around the time of the American Revolution. They were viewed with an "optical machine" (or "zograscope") that used a mirror and magnifying lens to approximate a three-dimensional image. The main title, "Vue de Salem," is printed as a mirror image; when viewed through the optical machine, it would appear correctly.
These views were often fanciful and the exact location depicted here is not readily identifiable. Accuracy aside, this is a wonderful view of what a European artist thought Salem looked like during the American Revolution. The caption below the view notes that Salem has two harbors -- one for the summer and one for the winter.
Reference: Cresswell, The American Revolution in Drawings and Prints: 481.
[ICN 3699.]
This is one of a series of engravings of Boston, New York, and a few other important American cities done as perspective views or "vues d'optique" around the time of the American Revolution. They were viewed with an "optical machine" (or "zograscope") that used a mirror and magnifying lens to approximate a three-dimensional image. The main title, "Vue de Salem," is printed as a mirror image; when viewed through the optical machine, it would appear correctly.
These views were often fanciful and the exact location depicted here is not readily identifiable. Accuracy aside, this is a wonderful view of what a European artist thought Salem looked like during the American Revolution. The caption below the view notes that Salem has two harbors -- one for the summer and one for the winter.
Reference: Cresswell, The American Revolution in Drawings and Prints: 481.
[ICN 3699.]
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- Seller
- BICKERSTAFF'S BOOKS, MAPS &C. (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 3757
- Title
- Vue de Salem.
- Author
- [View: Massachusetts: Salem.] Leizelt
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Grave par Balth. Frederic Leizelt.
- Place of Publication
- Augsburg.
- Date Published
- Ca. late 1770s.
- Size
- Printed area: 12 x 15 5/8."
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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