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This black and white engraving appears to be based on the 1711 “Kit-cat” of “Kit-kat” portrait in oils of Sir Chrstopher Wren by Godfre...


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A man with a large nose and a top hat and a wand is blowing at the flame in a lantern that he holds in one hand.


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We see a heading, Les Spirites (the spirists), drawn as if from the back of a stage or platform in a dimly-lit room or theatre. There’s a large audience,...


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At first I thought this chest of drawers was a robot, although in 1865 that seemed unlikely. It has a face made from places w...


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This is another small detail from José Benlliure y Gil’s huge oil painting Christmas Mass or Boys’ Choir...


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