Optical Toy: "The Rival Heros" (Spooner's Transformations, no. 7)
date: label: Date
content: 1838
name: label: Publisher
content: William Spooner, England, active 1830 – 1854
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Two fighting cocks in an arena - when held to the light they become Napoleon and Wellington. Below, title between two vignettes and: "Between the two gamest Birds in Europe. When Greek meets Greek then comes the tug of War." Publisher's name and the date, June 18m 1838, below.
place: label: made in
content: London, England
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Hamill and Barker
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1961-105-9
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Lithograph, brush and watercolor on paper, mounted
label: Dimensions
content: 22.9 × 28.5 cm (9 in. × 11 1/4 in.)