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Artist
- Name:
- Robida, Albert
- Dates:
- 1848-1926
- Country:
- France
Illustration
- Subject:
- Buildings & monuments
- Technique:
- Wood engraving
- Format:
- Portrait (taller)
- Source:
- The Getty Research Institute, the Internet Archive
Book
- Title:
- Le vingtième siècle
- Author(s):
- Robida, Albert
- Publisher:
- Paris: Georges Decaux, 1883
- Open Library:
- View record.
Description
A house with a bartizan and checkered tile pattern stands on a high, circular, rotating platform operated by wheels and gears. A man wearing a cap manages the device while at house level, people are going on with their lives with a woman reading on the terrace and children flying a kite.
The caption reads in the original French: Maison tournante aérienne.
Keywords: 1880s, 19th century, black & white, fantasy, retrofuturism
