Leaf hand-colored transparencies series"" Transformations"" English publisher W. Spooner. In the first third of the nineteenth century there were three editors in England who were dedicated to the publication of these optical gadgets. The most famous was W. Spooner, who published between 60 and 80 different reasons in different series. Less known today are competitors"" Brown"" and"" Morgan"" . On the back of the front colored other colors were painted and partly other details, which are then covered with tissue paper (for protection and for better light scattering, lack this role with this view here ). If you now hold the sheet against the light, a rose large format becomes the view of Queen Victoria on the throne, who had taken office earlier. (For details, see page Werner Nekes under the term"" Transparentbilder"" ). In the upper area there is a small hole, but this does not affect the effect. These fragile leaves are hard to find nowadays and if so, they are offered mostly in England at prices from 250 to 350 pounds sterling (corresponding to about 280 to 400 euros). This image, which dates from 1838, at first glance shows us a rose with Windsor Castle to the end, but Queen Victoria sat on his throne, which is the rose if we look at the candling appears. Under lithography you can read a line from Shakespeare's Hamlet:"" The expectancy and rose of the fair State"" . In the 1830s London publishers like William Spooner (author of this lithograph) invented again this print, which given the transparency of the role the first vision can become something different when light enters through the back of the print. These products enjoyed much success in the first half of the nineteenth century and were known as"" Spooner's Transformations"" , being used also in the"" polyoramas panoptyque""
