scenograph

English

Etymology

See scenography.

Noun

scenograph (plural scenographs)

A perspective representation or lateral view of an object, as opposed to a view from above or below.
- 2015, Catherine Wilson, Leibniz's Metaphysics: A Historical and Comparative Study, page 68:
  The analogy between the ichnograph - scenograph relation and the independent - dependent relation between God and particular minds clearly struck Leibniz as most beautiful and appropriate .
An early portable camera, invented in 1874 by a Dr. Candèzi.
- 1874 November 6, Foreign Notes and News, The British Journal of Photography, volume 21, page 534:
  Every inventor may be excused a little enthusiasm when exhibiting his bantling to the world, and we must not criticise too severely the remark of the worthy doctor, in the preface to his brochure, in which he tells us that he looks forward confidently to the time when every tourist will be a photographer, and will carry in his coat pockets, on his excursions, the scenograph and dark plates, and in his hand the walking-stick tripod.
- 1877 May 4, “The Scenograph”, in English Mechanic and Mirror of Science and Art, volume 25, page 179:
  One whose ideas of cameras and photographic apparatus have been acquired from an acquaintance with the works of English camera-makers will, upon examining a scenograph, immediately assert that it is a mere toy and nothing more.
- 1882, Sir William de Wiveleslie Abney, Instruction in Photography, page 282:
  The scenograph is a pocket camera adapted for taking 6 by 42 pictures.
A changing diorama or cyclorama representing a historic event, first introduced in 1894.
- 1894, “People and Things”, in Kate Field's Washington, volume 10, page 126:
  What is the scenograph? It is the latest development of the cyclorama and is the creation of Mr. E. J. Austen, who has painted seventeen different cycloramas, including the Battle of Gettysburg and the Chicago Fire. In the scenograph Mr. Austen has added to a printed background a model of the great buildings of the World's Fair, with real water for Lake Michigan and the lagoons.
- 1894, “The Great Chicago Fair to Come to Boston”, in The Opera Glass: A Musical and Dramatic Magazine, page 141:
  The. Scenograph presents to the spectator the World's Fair, with a large tract of the surrounding country as it would appear to an aeronaut drifting over the lake at an altitude of 600 feet.
- 1894, “The Scenograph”, in The Electrical World, volume 24, page 84:
  The scenograph is the latest development of the cycloramic art .
- 1900 September, Transportation, page 22:
  One of the most instructive attractions on the Midway is the scenograph of the Johnstown Flood, which vividly illustrates one of the most appalling catastrophes in our country's history. The scenograph is an evolution from and combination of cyclorama, diorama and scenic theatre.