Ambrotype
A159
Size |
Square |
This optical illusion was copyrighted in 1859 and published in
Moore's Rural New Yorker in 1861, December 14th. This is an ambrotype
copy of the original newspaper, held by a metal wrapper. Possibly someone
admired the illusion so much, they made the copy themselves to show to friends.
The text underneath the illusion reads as follows:
Supposed portrait of a celebrated "professor"
As intimated some weeks ago, we give a portrait of the self-styled "Professor" of
"Terra-Culture"
the man who don't admire certain "Learned Agricultural Editors", because their exposures have retarded
his progress and profits in "disclosing the disclosures." The above is supposed to be a portrait of the
possessor of the so-called Great Secret; but by reversing the picture, (as the reader will now do,)
he can be seen as viewed by those who have heard him and tested his theory.