Hand-colored lithograph of a cavernous room with sunlit landscape visible through arch, signed "v. adam. del", with 1 ¼-inch enameled Roman dial marked "Tharin à Paris", two-train movement striking hours and halves on gong, three-air pull-string cylinder movement, No. 34035, stamped "H.M. ...", two separate going-barrel automaton movements driving pulleys, pinned wheels and a brass cam for 15 movements: two blacksmiths working with hammers, a third operating bellows, a farrier shoeing a horse, the horse nodding, a dog wagging its tail, landscape with train crossing a viaduct in the background, a procession of figures and horses in the foreground, river with fisherman in rocking boat, a washerwoman working on the bank, glass-twist waterfall, a windmill and a church with moving weathervane on the horizon, in restored giltwood frame, image 19 ½ x 25 in. (50 x 64 cm), framed 29 x 35 in. (74 x 89 cm), with night-silencer control, pendulum and key. Possible minor retouch, movements cleaned and in good working order. – Literature: The London department store Silber & Fleming advertised a similar piece for £6, 15 shilling in their catalog of 1884. See Mary Hillier, "Automata and Mechanical Toys", p. 114. – A most impressive musical picture clock with unusual animated landscape in the background.