Le Paradis./ Das Paradies./ The Paradise
Paper Peepshow
[1835] (published)
[1835] (published)
Accordion-folding peepshow within a cartonnage box and with a rolling panorama background. Expands to approximately 66 cm.
3 cut-out panels. Hand-coloured lithographs. Cartonnage and two wooden winders to rotate the panorama.
Peepshow of the Garden of Eden.
Front of cartonnage box: Despiction of God, flanked by angels. Puncturing God's robes is a peephole with card tag to draw up a blue coloured glass filter. Along the left, right and bottom edges of the box are vignettes of the Temptation and Expolision of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden.
Panel 1: a crocodile, boar, goat and a hedgehog.
Panel 2: a beaver, leopard, wolf, plus Eve and Adam and the Tree of Knowledge.
Panel 3: a panoramic landscape.
3 cut-out panels. Hand-coloured lithographs. Cartonnage and two wooden winders to rotate the panorama.
Peepshow of the Garden of Eden.
Front of cartonnage box: Despiction of God, flanked by angels. Puncturing God's robes is a peephole with card tag to draw up a blue coloured glass filter. Along the left, right and bottom edges of the box are vignettes of the Temptation and Expolision of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden.
Panel 1: a crocodile, boar, goat and a hedgehog.
Panel 2: a beaver, leopard, wolf, plus Eve and Adam and the Tree of Knowledge.
Panel 3: a panoramic landscape.
Object details
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| Title | Le Paradis./ Das Paradies./ The Paradise (published title) |
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| Brief description | Paper peepshow, Le Paradis./ Das Paradies./ The Paradise, [Germany, ca. 1835?]. |
| Physical description | Accordion-folding peepshow within a cartonnage box and with a rolling panorama background. Expands to approximately 66 cm. 3 cut-out panels. Hand-coloured lithographs. Cartonnage and two wooden winders to rotate the panorama. Peepshow of the Garden of Eden. Front of cartonnage box: Despiction of God, flanked by angels. Puncturing God's robes is a peephole with card tag to draw up a blue coloured glass filter. Along the left, right and bottom edges of the box are vignettes of the Temptation and Expolision of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden. Panel 1: a crocodile, boar, goat and a hedgehog. Panel 2: a beaver, leopard, wolf, plus Eve and Adam and the Tree of Knowledge. Panel 3: a panoramic landscape. |
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| Credit line | Accepted under the Cultural Gifts Scheme by HM Government from the collections of Jacqueline and Jonathan Gestetner and allocated to the Victoria and Albert Museum, 2016. |
| Object history | Part of the Jacqueline and Jonathan Gestetner Collection, collected over 30 years and given to the V&A Museum through the government's Cultural Gift Scheme in 2016. |
| Bibliographic reference | R. Hyde, Paper Peepshows. The Jacqueline and Jonathan Gestetner Collection (Woodbridge: The Antique Collectors' Club, 2015), cat. 113. |
| Other number | 2014208 - Previous number |
| Collection | |
| Library number | Gestetner 113 |
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| Record created | February 2, 2017 |
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