Popping the Question or The Protean Lovers

Description:

Popping the Question or The Protean Lovers, Mechanical Print, No. 4, R. Evan Sly's New & Amusing Mechanical Print, published 1844, a scarce hand-colored item that has a disc mechanism that spins allowing the faces of the illustrations to change, more than twenty-five different faces per character (1 x 4 inch stain on lower margin),sight 12 3/4 x 14 3/4 in., framed 12 1/2 x 16 1/2 in.
Estimate $600-800

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