Accession number
PML 88440
Published
[New York] : [Mc. Loughlin Bros.], [between 1852 and 1870]
Credit line
Gift of Julia P. Wightman, 1991.
Notes
Title from box.
Publisher and place from a similar copy (PML 88439)
Date derived from Napoleonic image.
Issued with cylindrical mirror.
The distorted handcolored pictures come to life, only when the mirror is placed on the circle under each picture, revealing portraits of, for example, Empress Eugénie, a ballet dancer, Puss-in-Boots, and an elephant.
Publisher and place from a similar copy (PML 88439)
Date derived from Napoleonic image.
Issued with cylindrical mirror.
The distorted handcolored pictures come to life, only when the mirror is placed on the circle under each picture, revealing portraits of, for example, Empress Eugénie, a ballet dancer, Puss-in-Boots, and an elephant.
Description
[13] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 29 cm
Provenance
From the library of Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
In publisher's pink decorated cardboard box with pictorial printed label pasted on the lid. In modern 1/4 brown morocco slipcase with title stamped in gold.
Classification
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Department