STORAGE ST. PETERSBURG RUSSIA 1760 PROBST ANTIQUE ORIGINAL COPPER ENGRAVED OPTICAL VIEW ANTIQUE COPPER ENGRAVED OPTICAL VIEW OF ST. PETERSBURGR Condition: --not specified Ended: Jan 05, 2023 21:13:41 PST Winning bid: ST. PETERSBURG RUSSIA 1760 PROBST ANTIQUE ORIGINAL COPPER ENGRAVED OPTICAL VIEW Description Prospectus Collegiorum Imperialium et Fundorum orientalum Mercatorum Petersburgi. === Vue des Colleges Imperiaux et du Magazin des Marchandises de l'Orient a Petersbourg. === Viso dei Collegi Imperiali et del Magazzeno dei Mercanti Orientali a Petersborgo. === Prospect der Kauser: Collegien u: der Magazin der Orientalischen Kauf=Leute zu Petersburg. Description: Striking and highly detailed fine unusual 1760 Georg Balthasar Probst's copper engraved so-called optical view featuring a panoramic view of Saint Petersburg, Russia. The view shows the city with his Palaces, buildings and square. Several inhabitants adorn the view. The Vues d'optique were specifically developed to provide the illusion of depth when viewed through a zograscope, also known as an "optical diagonal machine" or viewers with similar functions. Date: 1760 ( undated ) Dimension: Paper size approx.: cm 50,1 x 37,1 Condition: Very strong and dark impression on good paper. Paper with chains and wiremarh. Plate old original colored. Wide margins. Corners partially missing. Small foxing and browning. Conditions are as you can see in the images. Publisher: Georg Balthasar Probst (Augsburg, 1732 - 1801) was an engraver and publisher in Augsburg. He made or published architectural views of places around the world, including vues d'optique, published in various places during the last half of the 18th century, including Paris, Augsburg and London.