<< YCBA Home Yale Center for British Art Yale Center for British Art << YCBA Home

YCBA Collections Search

 
IIIF Actions
Creator:
Engelbrecht, Martin, 1684-1756
Title(s):

[Harvest landscape] / M. Eng. exc. A.V.

Published/Created:
[Germany], [ca. 1720-1750]
Physical Description:
1 peep show (6 prints mounted on cardboard) : hand-colored etchings ; sheets 10 x 16, 12 cm deep when spaced
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
DD901.A1 H37 1720
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
View by request in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details.

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Prints
Notes:
By Martin Engelbrecht, creator of a number of peepshows in the early 18th century. The present work is probably the same listed as item 287 ("Fall") in Stafford's Devices of wonder.
Title devised by cataloger.
Stafford, B.M. Devices of wonder, 287
BAC: British Art Center copy prints are mounted, at each corner, to accordion folded strips of paper (not contemporary).
The peepshow comprises six hand-colored, cut-out prints. When properly spaced, the prints depict a havest scene in three dimensions.
Subject Terms:
Agriculture -- Germany -- Pictorial works.
Germany -- Pictorial works.
Harvesting -- Germany -- Pictorial works.
Form/Genre:
Etchings -- Hand-colored
Hand coloring.
Miniature theaters.
Tunnel books.
Recreations.
Export:
XML


If you have information about this object that may be of assistance please contact us.