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Halfsheet Wissembourg Victorian-era chromolithograph paper cutout game featuring a caricature of a man in a Turkish costume. These types of cutouts were popular parlor games and novelty items in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Game Details
Type of Item: This is a paper toy or game designed for amusement.
Mechanism: The cutouts at the bottom edge suggest the pieces could be mixed and reassembled to create funny or grotesque variations of the figure, a type of "metamorphosis" game.
Artwork Style: The image is created using chromolithography, a method for making multi-color prints that was widely used during the Victorian era for mass-produced illustrations, including games and paper dolls.
Subject: The figure is depicted in 19th-century Turkish attire, which was a common, albeit often stereotypical, subject in European popular culture at the time. |
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