Prints, Drawings, and Photographs Catoptric Anamorphosis of a Woman with a Cane, Holding a Rosary 19th century Published by Walter Frères - r. Paradis Pre 28, Paris Hand-colored lithograph Currently not on view 1965-194-33 Purchased with the Margaretta S. Hinchman Fund, 1965 |
LabelRelics of the Renaissance curiosity cabinet and of the earliest experiments with optical devices, sets of printed anamorphic transformation cards began to be produced during the nineteenth-century for home diversion. Box sets were sold with reflective cylinders called anamorphic scopes into which the viewer must look to properly see the image that appears distorted on each sheet. |
