Augsburg, Martin Engelbrecht, ca. 1760. Seven engraved and originally hand-coloured cards (20.0 x 23.2 cm). [Complete].

Rare ultra large-sized scenes, by Johann David Nessenthaler (ca. 1717-before 1766) for the Augsburg firm founded by and named after the German engraver, printer, and publisher Martin Engelbrecht (1684-1756), the sole firm with a royal privilege to publish these dioramas or peep-shows. This one is of a particularly large size, and, therefore, mounted on stronger cardboard than usual. Also, it consists of one frame more than usual, viz., seven, instead of six. "Normal" large-sized peepshows are approximately 16 by 20 cm. It bears the printed numbers 49 (for the item?), and 323-329, for the cards. A few old repairs, the paper of a few frames partly perished in the margins, but complete and in all an excellent copy.