Accession number
PML 88439
Published
New-York : Mc. Loughlin Bros., [between 1852 and 1870]
Credit line
Gift of Julia P. Wightman, 1991.
Notes
Title from box.
Date derived from Napoleonic images.
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, Emperor Louis Napoleon, Empress Eugénie, and Sancho Panza on his donkey.
Description
[23] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 28 cm
Provenance
From the library of Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
In the original wooden box with chromolithograph pasted onto the lid. In modern 1/4 red and green morocco slipcase with decorated paper sides.
Classification
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Department