Vue de Quebeck (View of Quebec)
Artist and engraver Balthasar Friedrich Leizel German
Publisher Academie Imperiale, Augsburg German
Not on view
Ships and boats on the shore of the St. Lawrence River, near Quebec, the capital of New France. Such prints were known as Perspective Prints, or Vues d'optique in French, and Guckkastenbilder or Perspektivansichten in German. They were intended to be viewed through an optical device called a perspective glass or zograscope that contains a concave lens and a mirror that reversed the image and enhanced its three-dimensionality. Specially designed peepboxes were also created to contain them.
