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Notes on the Panorama in Paris

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 October 2010

Barry V. Daniels
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Robert Barker of Edinburgh patented the panorama process on 19 June 1787 and opened the first panorama in London in 1792. Robert Fulton, the American inventor, obtained the patent to import the panorama to Paris at the end of 1799. Fulton opened the Paris panorama in 1800, but shortly thereafter ceded the patent to James Thayer. By the summer of 1800 there were two panorama rotundas in operation in a passage off the Boulevard Montmartre. At the end of 1802 a third rotunda was constructed in the Jardin des Capucines, Boulevard de la Chausée d'Antin.

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Research Article
Information
Theatre Survey , Volume 19 , Issue 2 , November 1978 , pp. 171 - 176
Copyright
Copyright © American Society for Theatre Research 1978

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NOTES

1 These facts are outlined in Bapst, G., Essai sur l'histoire des panoramas et dioramas (Paris, 1891).Google Scholar

2 MM Vincent, Regnault, Du Fourny, Monge, Brisson, and Charles. “Rapport fait à l'Institut national des sciences et des arts, sur l'origine, les effets et les progrès du Panorama.” Paris, 28 fructidor, an 8. (September, 1800.) (All translations are my own.)

3 Donnet, A.. Architectonographie des théâtres de Paris (Paris, 1821), p. 344.Google Scholar