Wonderful hand-colored metamorphic images, eight in all, which look like one type of character facing one way, and a very different character, somtimes the opposite, essentially, when flipped around. Scarce, with only known other copy at the BNF, as one might expect, and no indication that this copy has hand-coloring, and additionally, this copy is smaller, meaning it was cut more tightly. N.d., circa 1820. Oblong, measuring 41.5 cm wide, 27 cm tall. So in one direction, you have a Russian officer, but when you flip it, you have an Armenian. A flower girl one way becomes an Amazon, the other. A Spaniard transforms into a coal merchant. The caricatures are all vivid and well-rendered, and likely to tickle even without the captioning, since a few of the identifications, such as Pere Radis and Madame Radis, are obscure to us. The print is canvas backed, yet heavily soiled. We would note that the soiling is susceptible to cleaning up to a fair degree with a simple eraser, if one wishes to make the effort. Also, the print has a lot of crinkling, cracking, edge closed tearing, and veins of blistering between the paper and the canvas. Still, the canvas does provide some substantiality which helps preserve the integrity of the print. Seller Inventory # 007877

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Title: Suite du magasin de visages

Publisher: Chez de Alexandre Tessier, Successeur de V. Chereau, Paris

Publication Date: 1820

Binding: NA

Condition: Fair

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Antiquarian books of all kinds, with emphases on color plate books, decorative arts, foreign literature (German, French, Italian, Spanish), children's literature, philosophy, sporting (equine, hunting, shooting).

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