Optical Illusion Collection

Duck-Rabbit illusion. From: Jastrow, J. The minds eye. Popular Science Monthly, 1899. From a private collection

Scene (the last) from the opera of "Medea", 1850. Creator: Unknown
Scene (the last) from the opera of "Medea", 1850. London production of Simon Mayr's "Medea in Corinto", the title role sung by Teresa Parodi:..vengeance accomplished

Coverlet, c. 1936. Creator: Dorothy Posten
Coverlet, c. 1936

Trompe l Oeil of an Etching by Ferdinand Bol, c. 1675. Creator: Unknown
Trompe l Oeil of an Etching by Ferdinand Bol, c. 1675

Blue Beard Tableau: Fatima Enters the Forbidden Court; What She Sees There; Disposition of the Bodies (Invisible to the Spectators) (Harpers Bazar, Vol. I), September 5, 1868

Interior view of the Enfants Trouves, 1759. Creator: Etienne Fessard
Interior view of the Enfants Trouves, 1759

An Awe-Inspiring Display of Solar Haloes, 1935. From The Popular Science Educator, Volume 2, edited by Charles Ray. [The Amalgamated Press, Ltd. London]

How The Kaleidoscope Makes Its Patterns, 1936
How The Kaleidoscope Makes Its Patterns, 1935. From The Popular Science Educator, Volume 2, edited by Charles Ray. [The Amalgamated Press, Ltd. London]

False Perspective, 1753. Artist: Luke Sullivan
False Perspective, 1753. Illustration from Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century... With over two hundred illustrations by George Paston [pseudonym of Emily Morse Symonds], (London, 1905)

Paving tiles of the 14th and 15th century, (1870). Artist: Franz Kellerhoven
Paving tiles of the 14th and 15th century, (1870). A chromolithographic print from The Arts of the Middle Ages and at the Period of the Renaissance, by Paul Lacroix, (London, 1870)

The Cook, c1570. Artist: Giuseppe Arcimboldi
The Cook, c1570. This image can be interpreted in two ways, either as a cook taking the lid off a dish of sucking pigs or, if turned upside down, as the head of the cook. From a private collection

Curvature of the Earth, c1880. Because the Earth is curved, distant objects, such as the furthest ships in this illustration, seem to sink below the horizon

Ezekiels vision of a chariot in the sky and a hand in the clouds holding out a book to him, 1804. Ezekiel was one of the four great Hebrew prophets

Ezekiels vision of chariot in sky, c614 BC
Ezekiels vision of chariot in sky c614 BC. Ezekiel was one of the four great Hebrew prophets. One modern explanation for the vision seen by him, is that he observed parhelia (mock suns)

The Ambassadors, 1533. Artist: Hans Holbein the Younger
The Ambassadors, 1533. Double portrait by Hans Holbein (1497-1543) of Jean de Dinteville and Georges de Selve. In the foreground is a distorted skull, representing mortality

Portrait of Pedro de Salvador Carmona and his wife Maria Garcia, 1780. Creator: Manuel Salvador Carmona
Portrait of Pedro de Salvador Carmona and his wife Maria Garcia, 1780

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