Painted glass plate stereo view "Mountain Refuge" circa 1910

Beautiful painted stereoscopic glass plate

Mountain refuge

Plate captioned in German; "weltpanorama"

Overpainting of photographs on glass, a process developed by Charles SOULIER (1816-1886)

format 8.5 x 17 cm

plaque A. Fuhrmann intended for the Kaiserpanorama.

The Kaiserpanorama was a large, round wooden cabinet that allowed twenty-five people to view a series of stereoscopic photographs at the same time. When viewed through special stereoscopic viewers, the photographs appeared in three dimensions.

The Kaiserpanorama was patented in 1888 by the German entrepreneur and showman August Fuhrmann (1844-1925).