[Fort de Gibraltar, 17--?]
- Title(s):
[Fort de Gibraltar.
- Published/Created:
- s.l., 17--?]
- Physical Description:
- 4 col. plates. 16 x 20 cm.
- Holdings:
- Rare Books and ManuscriptsGV1199 F6View by request in the Study Room [Request]
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- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/173962
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- A telescopic peepshow. The "plates" are actually cutout panels, connected top and bottom by paper.
Title from ms. note on the verso of the last panel.
A homemade toy? The panels may have been originally used in a true peepshow.
Possibly of French origin.
Cottage of content, or, Toys, games, and amusements of nineteenth century England, 59
Selected exhibitions: "The Cottage of Content : or, Toys, Games, and Amusements of Nineteenth Century England" (Yale Center for British Art, November 2 - December 31, 1977). - Form/Genre:
- Tunnel books.
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Cottage of Content, or, Toys, Games, and Amusements of Nineteenth Century England (Yale Center for British Art, November 2, 1977-December 31, 1977) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
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