Author: Gottlieb Friedrich Riedel (1724-1784), after Georg Balthasar Probst (1732-1801)
Title: [Antique print, handcolored optica, The Hague] VUE DE LA PETITE ETANG A HAYE, published ca. 1750.
Description: Mirrored view on the Korte Vijverberg, next to the Hofvijver in The Hague (Den Haag). On the right side of the busy street you see Peter Post’s building ‘Het Mauritshuis’. The first building on the right was then De Doelen, the headquarters of the military guard in the city. Today it hosts the History Museum of The Hague (het Haags Historisch Museum). The print is hand coloured.Titled above: 'Collection des Prospects. VUE DE LA PETITE ETANG A HAYE.' The title in capital letters mirrored as the print is a so called vue d' optique and was thus made to be looked at through a zograscope.Titled at bottom in German and French: 'Prospect des kleinen Fischteiches beij dem Schutzenhauss zu Haag in Holland. / Vue de la petite Etang aupres de la Maison de Tirage a la Haye en Hollande.'With address of the publisher below: 'Se vend a Augsbourg au Negoce comun de l' Academie Impariale d'Empire des Arts libereaux avec Privilege de Sa Majeste Imperiale et avec Defence ni d'enfaire ni de vendre les Copies:'Signed on the bottom right: 'Grave' par F. Riedel'.Mirrored impression in respect to the edition of Georg Balthasar Probst (1732-1801). Handcolored engraving and etching on paper, with small margins; total: 315 x 426 mm; some smudges on the margins, otherwise in very good condition.

Keywords: Hand colored|Optical prints|the Hague