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(CHILDREN'S THEATER / PEEP SHOW). [Eighteenth-Century Children's Theater: Daniel in the Lion's Den ].
[Augsburg: Martin Engelbrecht, ca. 1750]. Six engraved plates, coloured by hand and cut out, together forming a perspective theatre peepshow, the first scene serving as front stage; contemp. hand-lettered paper sleeve. Beautifully housed in custom-designed paste-paper display box (with leather-lined oval cut-outs at front and sides for viewing and illumination) and cloth-covered case. ¶ A toy theater for use as a peepshow or otherwise to be played with by children. Martin Engelbrecht in Augsburg (1684-1756) virtually had the monopoly on this kind of engraved cut-out scene, with privileges from 1719, 1729, and 1739 against copying. The peepshow theaters were mainly designed by Jeremias Wachsmuth (1711-1771), and Johann David Nessenthaler (1717-1766). They were generally brought onto the market already cut out and colored by hand, ready to be played with and to be shown in matching peepshow boxes. ¦ With contemporary paper sleeve annotated in manuscript. Cf. Wolfgang Seitz in: Der Guckkasten, 1995, p. 46 ff.; Metken, Geschnittenes Papier, p. 42, 102, 253; Sammlung Werner Nekes p. 108 ff.; Thieme-Becker 35, p. 5 (Wachsmuth), and 25, p. 395 (Nessenthaler).
Offered for US$ 2000.00 by: Dailey Rare Books - Book number: 5709.