The Arcades Project - Operi

Diorama on the Rue de Bondy, 1837. Courtesy of the Bibliotheque Nationale de France.
See Q9a,3.
Once the scene is complete and in place all around,
Transform a bare cloth covering circular walls
To a mirror of nature itself.
Nepomuctme Lemercier, Sur La. Decouverte de l'ingenieux peintre du diorama
[afterward: Lampiilie et Daguerre) (Institut Royal de France, Annual Public Session
of the Five Academies Thursday, May 2, 1839, chaired by M. Chevreul,
president [Paris, 1839), Pl" 26-27). [Q;la,l]
After the .July Revolution, Dagnerre's diorama included a view of (.(.la Place de la
Bastille, July 28, 1830." Pinet, Histoire de l'Ecole poly technique ,
p. 208. [Q;la,2]
Dioramas at the Chateau d 'Ean (later the Place de la Rcpuhlique) and on the Rue
de Bondy. Cabinet des Estalllpes. [Q;la,3]
A print advertising the manufacture of precision instruments, J. Molteni and Co.,
62 Rue du Chateau d'Eau, refers (after 18561) to, among other things, "apparatus
of phantasmagoria, polyoramas, dioramas, and such." Cabinet des Estampes.
[Q;la,4]
Empire vignette: "The Panorama." An illustration plate, linen or paper, showing
tightrope walkers in the middle ground. Arnor, with the pointed cap of a carnival
clown or of a town crier, points to a puppet theater in the foreground, where a