La Bibliothèque Infernale, French Diablerie circa 1860
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I am so tempted to run off a zillion copies of this image and use them to wallpaper my bedroom.
I was thinking wine bottle labels.
Oooooh, that would be PERFECT. As a label for a nice hearty red.
Sigh, I can always count on BDW to find a way to make wine more enticing… 😉
I so completely agree! What a genius idea!
Right? Wouldn’t that be fun??
Don’t stop with just this one image – it’s part of a whole fabulous set! The London Stereoscopic Company have been kind enough to put their whole collection up online, with a number of them showing the eerie coloration effect. 😉
I too love this and would like to have it as a poster.
What a great idea…I wonder if someone has reproduced them that way yet? There are so many fantastic diableries in the collection that it would be hard to pick just one, though!
Sooo much creepy happening here – love it!
Thanks, Mistylayne! I found this quote about these, which I love:
And they seem certainly do seem to be having a great time with all that devilry and half-nude frolicking!
Oooohhh, excellent quote. It certainly is fitting. 🙂
took a little google translate since what little French I knew is long gone, but that is wickedly awesome!
Right, Ami B? I love that they were just discovered in an old box in a condemned building in the 1970’s, too. C’est fantastique! 😉
Is this a sculpture or a drawing? I can’t really tell. Awesome stuff!
They are actually stereoscopic photographs of clay sculptures. Both photos in a set would be reverse-colored and highlighted, then backed with tissue and mounted together in cardboard, kind of like a modern slide. When they were held up to light and viewed with a stereoscope, they would glow through in “infernal” colors with a 3-D effect. Take a look at the “Surprise” button on this Diablerie to see how the colored effect looked!