Balthasar Friedrich Leizelt
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title:
Balthasar Friedrich Leizelt
text:
Balthasar Friedrich Leizelt was a German artist and copperplate engraver working from Augsburg. Leizelt produced a series of European and American scenic views at a time when pictures of foreign countries and people were popular and designed for use in optical viewers. As is normal for these prints the series title is a mirror image because optical viewers made use of mirrors which reversed the image. The Age of Enlightenment sparked a great interest in science, so that optical toys and devices
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German artist and copperplate engraver
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balthasar_Friedrich_Leizelt
date created:
2014-12-27T17:23:38Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T02:45:01Z
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