"L'Habit fait l'Homme" Optical Transformation Game

"L'Habit fait l'Homme" Optical Transformation Game, Netherlands, 18th century, comprising unclothed male and female watercolor portrait cards on black grounds, the man depicted on a scroll, adorned with flowers and suspended from a banner inscribed "L'Habit fait l'Homme" and signed M. C. Volhard fecit , the woman in a roundel adorned with flowers; with fifty-one male cut-paper watercolor overlays , including a traveling projectionist with vielle and magic lantern, sultan with scimitar, vendor of green spectacles, urinating street urchin titled "De Vuf Zinnen", bagpipist with monkey perched on his hat, gallant with cane and monogram S.S.T.S , apothecary (in shop) holding an enema syringe, judge with document inscribed "Ouwerwetze Nederlandze Patriot", gardener with Delft vase and hoe, mandarin with fan and pagoda, match-seller, silk-vendor, artist painting a bawdy scene, two full-figure cards: a pierrot seated cross-legged, and an acrobat turning a somersault; soldiers, surgeons, barristers, clerics, a pirate and other occupations; sixty-three female overlays , including musician with a vielle, mother breast-feeding her baby, urinating peasant, two nuns in Gothic embrasures, lady in powdered wig formed as a three-masted ship, seated old lady with parrot, old lady with newspaper, lady in ermine, flower-seller, fish-seller, beggar with child, shepherdess, widow in cloak and colorful dress, various court and country fashions, religious dress, hats and hairstyles; in gr Read more…