Yale Center for British Art

Title:

[Teleorama].

Published / Created:

[Austria] : [Heinrich Friedrich Müller?], [approximately 1825?]

Physical Description:

1 peepshow (7 sheets) : hand-colored lithographs ; 11 x 14 cm, 52 cm in depth (extended)

Holdings:

Rare Books and Manuscripts
GV1199 G37
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:

Public Domain

Related Content:

View a selection of digital images in the Yale Center for British Art's online catalogue https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/orbis:172539

Classification:

Three-Dimensional Artifacts

Notes:

Title from Hyde.

Accordion-folding peepshow.

Front panel: window with Gothic tracery looking out onto trees.

Panel 1: two ladies on the left reading a book together by a spring and a woman on the right with a basket of apples on her head.

Panel 2: a house on the left and a young man with a guitar on the right, directing his attention to the upper window of the house.

Panel 3: a huntsman on the left aiming his gun at two ducks that fly towards a waterfall to the right.

Panel 4: a baker's shop on the left, the baker seated outside, and a palace or barracks on the right with a sentry at his sentry-box; a couple pass by.

Panel 5: a peacock on a perch with a monkey on the left, and a garden and a house on the right; ducks and a swan swim on the pond.

Back panel: a wide street in a large urban setting.

Hyde, R. Paper peepshows, cat. 2

Cottage of content, or, Toys, games, and amusements of nineteenth century England, 59

Selected exhibitions: "The Cottage of Content : or, Toys, Games, and Amusements of Nineteenth Century England" (Yale Center for British Art, November 2 - December 31, 1977).

BAC: In the British Art Center copy, panel 5 (a peacock) precedes panel 4 (a baker's shop); the order is reversed in Gestetner copy described by Hyde.

Exhibition History:

Cottage of Content, or, Toys, Games, and Amusements of Nineteenth Century England (Yale Center for British Art, November 2, 1977-December 31, 1977)

Form/Genre:

Tunnel books. | Recreations. | Lithographs. | Hand coloring.

Contributors:

Müller, H. F. (Heinrich Friedrich), 1779–1848, publisher.