MOSCOW THE KREMLIN RUSSIA 1770 CARMINE ANTIQUE COPPER ENGRAVED OPTICAL VIEW ANTIQUE COPPER ENGRAVED OPTICAL VIEW OF KREMLIN MOSCOW old times rare books and maps (20136) 100% positiveSeller's other itemsSeller's other itemsContact seller US $255.00 MOSCOW THE KREMLIN RUSSIA 1770 CARMINE ANTIQUE COPPER ENGRAVED OPTICAL VIEW Description Prospect einer Moscovischen Barriere. === Vuл d'une Barriere Moscovite. Description: Striking and highly detailed fine unusual 1770 Joseph Carmine's copper engraved so-called optical view fetauring a Gate of the Kremlin, at Moscow, Russia. 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: 1770 ( undated ) Dimension: Paper size approx.: cm 43,1 x 28,7 Condition: Very strong and dark impression. Sheet sticked on board on the verso. Plate old original colored. Margin to the top missing. Lower margin cut very shortly. Good lateral margins. Small foxing and browning. Conditions are as you can see in the images. Publisher: Josef Carmine (1749-1822 after) Born Giuseppe Maria Domenico near Lake Maggiore, later Germanised as Joseph. Entered the print trade as agent for Balzer in Prague. Married a woman from Augsburg, and after 1778 began to set up as a printseller and publisher in Augsburg, also dealing in books and maps. Ritter has published much about him found in the Augsburg Archives. Carmine was succeeded by his son of same name. b.1788; partner in business in 1818, handed over to him in 1823, and was still active in 1837, especially in the map business.