| Giuseppe Engraving Italy c. 1700 8 1/2" x 5"
Pages from a folio 24 images, each face changes to a very different one when the image is rotated 180 degrees. (B109).
0492 |
| A Changing PopeAnonymous Etching The Netherlands c. 1706 Image: 3 1/2" diameter
0494 |
| Anonymous France Engraving c. 1720 4" x 2 3/4"
One view is a man's head and when turned becomes a horse's head.
4308
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| Anonymous Hand-colored engraving Great Britain c. 1740 5" x 7 1/4"
4286 |
| La Danse des MortsMatthiwu Merian Engraving Switzerland 1756 Image:4 1/4" x 4", page:7 3/4" x 6"
A page from La Danse des Morts, Basle (B382).
0493 |
| Hand-colored engraving Great Britain c. 1790 3 1/2" x 2 3/4"
0496 |
| Pour Nous Bien Voir Retournez NousEtching & engraving France c. 1810 13" x 15 3/4" (plate mark)
4540 |
| Les deux bons Apotres, ils se moquent l'un de l'autreLithograph France c. 1819 14 1/2" x 10 3/4"
A view of two apostles making fun of each other.
4465
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| Hand-painted image on a lacquered box Great Britain c. 1820 3" diam. 1/2" high
2895 |
| Courtship and MarriageEngraving Great Britain c. 1820 7 3/4" x 7 3/4"
0495 |
| Ma Tete ChangeHand-painted image on a lacquered box France c. 1820 3 1/2" diam.
3718 |
| Courtship & MarriageCeramic pitcher Great Britain c. 1840 5 1/2" high
A small pitcher to be filled with drink. Has the following poem on the back:
Fill your cup and banish grief Laugh and worldly care despised Sorrow neer will bring relief Joy from drinking will arise So pour this full and sup it up And call fro more to fill your cup.
0499 |
| Colored lithographs France c. 1840 11" x 4 1/2"
Five free standing figures similar to the three in item (4094) but cut from sheet and attached to cardboard with heads able to turn.
4274
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| Before Marriage/ After MarriageEnamel Continental c. 1860 1 1/2" x 2" x 1 1/4"
2482
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| Jeff Davis Going to WarWood engraving America c. 1865 3" x 5 1/2"
Published by Mumford & Co., Cincinnati.
3253 |
| Marshall Kane of Baltimore, Before and After His ArrestWood engraving America c. 1865 3" x 5 1/4"
4377 |
| From sketches by William McConnell Hand-colored wood engravings Great Britain 1868 7 1/2" x 6"
Four illustrations from a series of fifteen illustration contained in the book Upside Down; or Turnover Traits (B 578).
4507 |
| War and PeaceE.B. & E.C. Kellogg, Geo Witing Lithograph America c 1870 13 1/2" x 8 1/2"
0497 |
| Courtship / MatrimonyTransfer print on glass Great Britain c. 1870 3 1/4" x 3 1/4"
A magic lantern slide showing courtship and marriage.
4195 |
| W.P. Windsor Lithograph Great Britain c. 1880 6" x 4 1/2"
The card reads, "A learned man at present I appear But turn me round and lo an ass is there" and when turned around it reads, "If money I gain by this device A learned man and ass have equal price".
1291 |
| Jeu Des GrotesquesAnonymous Hand colored engravings France c. 1880 19 1/2" x 25"
A later printing of uncut sheet of cards first printed in 1820 with a series of two faced heads. Some of the heads/bodies can be turned to become yet another pair of faces.
4215
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| Doubles Faces No.1Honore Daumier Lithograph France 1838 9" x 12"
A page from Le Charivari.
0501 |
| A PEN'ORTH OF FUN OR AMUSEMENT FOR A WINTER FIRESIDEAnonymous Lithograph Great Britain c. 1850 20" x 14 3/4"
This single sheet was published by J. March, London and along with turning heads it also has material on magic lanterns and thaumatropes.
0504 |