page_title: My Wife and My Mother-in-Law
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: My Wife and My Mother-in-Law / History
caption_attribution_description: German postcard from 1888
context_page_description: "My Wife and My Mother-in-Law" is a famous ambiguous image, which can be perceived either as a young girl or an old woman.
context_section_description: American cartoonist William Ely Hill (1887–1962) published "My Wife and My Mother-in-Law" in Puck, an American humour magazine, on 6 November 1915, with the caption "They are both in this picture — Find them". However, the oldest known form of this image is an 1888 German postcard.
  In 1930 Edwin Boring introduced the figure to psychologists in a paper titled "A new ambiguous figure", and it has since appeared in textbooks and experimental studies.
caption: 1888 German postcard
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