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Are you interested in this item? This item is up for auction at Catawiki. Please click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the Catawiki website. Catawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available. Our weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any store. Offered here is a beautiful peep show sheet (Vue d'Optique, Opticaprent, Optical View, Peepshow Print) from:
Georg Balthasar Provost in Augsburg
"De Stad Goes uit de Haven te zien"
Sheet: Med. Fol. No. 40, Probst-Nr. 2 (parallel series)
Size: approx. 48.8 x 36 cm (sheet), 40 x 27 cm (representation)
Hand-coloured sheet from the collection of peep box pictures of the Augsburg publishing house Georg Balthasar Probst, comprising approx. 400 titles. The sheet is browned due to paper, some stains in the picture, otherwise in good condition.
Today, peep box sheets by Probst are sought-after views of bygone days that no longer exist today.
Sheets by Probst were far ahead of foreign peep box production, more detailed copper plates with lovingly designed details, as well as the much finer coloring, make them today also visually special delicacies. 67383991
