A Claude Glass, so called because the effect was thought to recall the paintings of Claude Lorrain, is a slightly convex dark mirror used by artists and tourists in the 18th Century to view the landscape. The convexity of the mirror condenses the view into a manageable composition, and the dark tint exaggerates its relative tonal values. With the advent of photography and a privileging of direct observation in art, the Claude Glass was all but forgotten; a few survived as curiosities. The one exhibited here is a shattered relic reflecting a dark broken view of a small idealized landscape.