Enthüllte Zauberkünste - Olympia
Trade Card
1894 (Printed)
1894 (Printed)
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This is one of a set of beautifully illustrated chromolithographic trade cards produced in Antwerp by Liebig Company to advertise their meat extract products such as meat paste and stock cubes, invented by the German chemist Justus von Liebig (1803-1873). In partnership with the Belgian engineer George Christian Giebert Liebig's Extract of Meat Company started production of the extract in 1865 in Fray Bentos, Uruguay and Colón, Panama, and around 1870 started to publish series of coloured lithographic cards that continued until 1975 when they had published more than 11,000 different cards in sets of six or twelve.
This card is one of the Magic Revealed set produced in 1894. It explains the Olympia'defying gravity' illusion, with an image (recto) of a girl on a turntable below stage being reflected above stage, with a written explanation (verso) of the trick, titled Olympia.
This card is one of the Magic Revealed set produced in 1894. It explains the Olympia'defying gravity' illusion, with an image (recto) of a girl on a turntable below stage being reflected above stage, with a written explanation (verso) of the trick, titled Olympia.
Object details
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| Title | Enthüllte Zauberkünste - Olympia (published title) |
| Materials and techniques | Printing ink on card |
| Brief description | Trade card advertising Liebig's meat extract illustrated with the Olympia defying gravity illusion. Colour lithograph published by Liebig as part of its Magic Revealed set, Antwerp 1894 |
| Physical description | Advertising trade card for the Liebig Company illustrated with an image of a floating lady illusion, and in vignettes a pot of the meat extract and an image of the trick with its apparatus (recto), and printed in black and red ink (verso) with details of the product and a written explanation of the trick called Olympia, and a reproduction in blue ink of the signature of the product's inventor J. Liebig. |
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| Object history | This is one of a series of trade cards printed by Liebig from around 1870 to 1875 to advertise their meat extract products, which later included Fray Bentos corned beef and Oxo cubes. |
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| Summary | This is one of a set of beautifully illustrated chromolithographic trade cards produced in Antwerp by Liebig Company to advertise their meat extract products such as meat paste and stock cubes, invented by the German chemist Justus von Liebig (1803-1873). In partnership with the Belgian engineer George Christian Giebert Liebig's Extract of Meat Company started production of the extract in 1865 in Fray Bentos, Uruguay and Colón, Panama, and around 1870 started to publish series of coloured lithographic cards that continued until 1975 when they had published more than 11,000 different cards in sets of six or twelve. This card is one of the Magic Revealed set produced in 1894. It explains the Olympia'defying gravity' illusion, with an image (recto) of a girl on a turntable below stage being reflected above stage, with a written explanation (verso) of the trick, titled Olympia. |
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| Accession number | S.561-2018 |
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| Record created | October 22, 2018 |
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