St. Eustache, une des Isles d'Antilles / St. Eustache, eine der Antillischen Inseln (St. Eustache, one of the Antilles Islands)
Engraver Bergmüller German
Publisher Academie Imperiale, Augsburg German
Not on view
A view of the British naval assualt on Saint Eustatius that took place February, 1781 during the American War of Independence. 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.
