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Image: The Optical Viewer (l’Optique)

Photo Credit: photo: M. Johnston
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The Optical Viewer (l’Optique)

ca. 1794
18th century
617 x 473 mm (24.3 x 18.6 in.)

J. F. Cazenave , aka Fréderic Cazenave, French
After Louis Léopold Boilly, French, (1761–1845)

Object Type: print
Medium and Support: Etching and engraving with roulette and rocker on laid paper
Print impression quality: Very good early impression before wear of plate, when it was colored à la poupée
Marks: Inscribed in plate, lower right: “Gravé par F. Cazenave”
Marks: Watermark: Unidentified letters area of title inscription
Bibliography: Carlson and Ittman, From Regency to Empire (1985), p. 304, cat. 110; Harisse, Boilly (1898), no. 6, pp. 74–75; see Clayton, The English Print (1997), pp. 140–142.
Credit Line: Friends of the Davison Art Center funds donated by Elizabeth Tishler, 1995
Accession Number: 1995.39.1

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This object has the following keywords:
art collecting, optics*, print collecting, print viewing, science*
  • art collecting
  • optics - Branch of physics that deals with the properties and phenomena of both visible and invisible light, including its generation, transmission, and detection or perception. [June 1994 scope note added; related term added. July 1993 descriptor moved. December 1992 descriptor moved.]
  • print collecting
  • print viewing
  • science - Use for the group of studies or branches of knowledge concerned with facts and phenomena of the observable or quantifiable world, systematically arranged and showing the operation of general laws. [April 1996 lead-in terms added; scope note added; related term added. July 1993 descriptor moved. January 1991 alternate term added.]

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  • sheet Dimensions: 617 x 473 mm (24.3 x 18.6 in.)

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