MUSIC ROOM LONDON ENGLAND 1760 WILKINSON ANTIQUE OPTICAL COPPER ENGRAVED VIEW

The Inside of the Elegant Music Room in Vaux Hall Gardens.// Le dedans du Concert Elegant aux Jardins du Vaux Hall.
 

Description: Striking and highly detailed fine unusual 1760 Robert Wilkinson's copper engraved so-called optical view of the inside of the Music Room in Vauxhall Gardens,London. The view shows London's high society of the time socializing and listening music.  

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 48 x 32,7

Condition: Very strong and dark impression on good paper. Paper with chains. Map old original colored. Map browned. Map sticked on the verso. Conditions are as you can see in the images.

Publishers: Robert Wilkinson (fl. c. 1758 - 1825) was a London based map and atlas publisher active in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Most of Wilkinson's maps were derived from the earlier work of John Bowles, one of the preeminent English map publishers of the 18th century. Wilkinson's acquired the Bowles map plate library following that cartographer's death in 1779. Wilkinson updated and retooled the Bowles plates over several years until, in 1794, he issued his first fully original atlas, The General Atlas of the World. This popular atlas was profitably reissued in numerous editions until about 1825 when Wilkinson died. In the course of his nearly 45 years in the map and print trade, Wilkinson issued also published numerous independently issued large format wall, case, and folding maps. Wilkinson's core cartographic corpus includes Bowen and Kitchin's Large English Atlas (1785), Speer's West Indies (1796), Atlas Classica (1797), and the General Atlas of the World (1794, 1802, and 1809), as well as independent issue maps of New Holland (1820), and North America (1823). Wilkinson's offices were based at no. 58 Cornhill, London form 1792 to 1816, following which he relocated to 125 Frenchurch Street, also in London, where he remained until 1823. Following his 1825 death, Wilkinson's business and map plates were acquired by William Darton, an innovative map publisher who reissued the General Atlas with his own imprint well into the 19th century.