Yale Center for British Art

Title:
Peep egg viewer of Weymouth, Dorset.
Published / Created:
Great Britain, ca. 1855.
Physical Description:
1 item : painted alabaster and glass ; 62 mm in diameter, 110 mm long
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Classification:
Three-Dimensional Artifacts
Notes:
Peep egg viewers, also called alabaster eggs, were sold as souvenirs from the mid-nineteenth century onward.
Subject Terms:
Peep shows -- Specimens. | Weymouth (Dorset, England) -- Pictorial works.
Form/Genre:
Optical instruments. | Peepshows. | Peep eggs. | Recreations. | Wood engravings -- 1855.