Spooner's Magic Prints. No. 2. (and) Magical Landscape. No. 1.

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• ARTIST: William Spooner

• PUBLISHER: London: Published by William Spooner, 259 Regent Street.

• MEDIUM: Lithographs

  DATE: c.1835

• EDITION SIZE: Image size of each, 4 1/2 x 6 1/2"" (11.5 x 16.6 cm)

• DESCRIPTION: An unusual and early pair of lithographs published in London by the firm of William Spooner. <br><br> William Matthias Spooner (1796-1882) English print and bookseller. He produced maps, map based games, caricatures and quite a number of unusual “Protean” transformational prints.<br><br> Spooner’s “protean” views was a wonderful transformation group of scenes which when held up to the light completely change in character – the Royal Exchange burns down – the new Houses of Parliament rise from the ashes of the old – a Swiss village disappears under an avalanche, Napoleon Powerful and Napoleon Powerless, The New Houses of Parliament etc. The transformation was accomplished by means of coloring, which by use of heat and light would alter the image or show a hidden image. A wonderful curiosity for the period<br><br> Subtitle of Spooner’s Magic Prints No. 2. “Which, when gently heated before a fire, will undergo a complete transformation. The Trees & the ground will become green the sky blue & the whole scene will take the appearance of Summer, Upon the paper cooling the Landscape resumes its wintry aspect. The effect can be constantly repeated.”

• ADDITIONAL INFO:

• CONDITION: Both prints are in good condition save for some minor surface soiling. "Magic Print No. 2" has two tine tears in the lower margin which just affect the lower publication line.

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• CATEGORIES: 18th-19th Century Subjects , Farm & Country Scenes