Skeleton Gambling Party
Print
1989 (made)
1989 (made)
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Reproduction of a stereoscopic card from 'Les Diableries' series (originally published in Paris ca. 1860-74), depicting a group of skeletons comprised of clay figures in a diorama set, seated around a table gambling. On the wall are two paintings, one of a young couple and one of an elderly woman. Lettered on the back 3-D Images and with details of publication etc.
Object details
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| Title | Skeleton Gambling Party |
| Materials and techniques | Colour lithograph printed with anaglyptic inks |
| Brief description | Stereoscopic postcard entitled 'Skeleton Gambling Party' from a set of 9 by David Burder, with accompanying pairs of lenses (2). Great Britain, 1989. |
| Physical description | Reproduction of a stereoscopic card from 'Les Diableries' series (originally published in Paris ca. 1860-74), depicting a group of skeletons comprised of clay figures in a diorama set, seated around a table gambling. On the wall are two paintings, one of a young couple and one of an elderly woman. Lettered on the back 3-D Images and with details of publication etc. |
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| Credit line | Given by David Burder |
| Object history | 'Les Diableries' were produced in the 1860s and 1870s in Paris by Louis Alfred Habert and Pierre Adolph Hennetier. They depict an imaginary underworld populated by demons, skeletons and Satan himself. Printed and hand-tinted on tissue, the stereoscopic cards have two photographs side by side, which when seen through a viewer, become three-dimensional. 'Les Diableries' were even more illusionary as when illuminated from the front, they presented a normal ‘day’ appearance in monochrome, but when illuminated from the back, the view becomes a ‘night’ scene, in which hidden colours magically appear. Red gels were used to give the eyes of the figures a ghoulish, bright red hue. |
| Production | Series Date: 1989 |
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| Accession number | E.1398-1989 |
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| Record created | December 9, 2008 |
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