False Collection (page 4)

Northern ghost bat and spectral bat
Northern ghost bat or white box-tailed bat, Diclidurus albus, and spectral bat or false vampire bat, Vampyrus spectrum. Handcoloured steel engraving by Lizars after an illustration by Charles

Spring pheasants eye or false hellebore, Adonis vernalis, Adonide printaniere. Handcoloured steel engraving by Charles Louis Constans after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre

Camelina or false flax, Camelina sativa, Cameline cultivee. Handcoloured steel engraving by L. Lebrun after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A. Dupuis, Fr

False helleborine or European white hellebore, Veratrum album. Handcoloured lithograph by Charlotte Caroline Sowerby from Edward Hamiltons Flora Homeopathica, Bailliere, London, 1852

Superb lyrebird and false azalea
Superb lyrebird, Menura novaehollandiae, and false azalea, Menziesia ferruginea, (Rhododendron menziesii). Handcoloured steel engraving by Pedretti after an illustration by Adolph Fries

Octopus and insects
Pseudoscorpion, Chthonius orthodactylus 1, Octyptera bicolor 2, tuberculate pelagic octopus, Ocythoe tuberculata 3, and false oil beetle, Oedemera nobilis 4. Obisie, Ocyptere, Ocythoe, Oedemere

False apollo, white dragontail and clearwing swallowtail
False apollo, Archon apollinus 1, white dragontail, Lamproptera curius 2, and clearwing swallowtail, Cressida cressida 3, grass of parnassus, Parnassia palustris 4

The Kiss in the Railway Train (colour litho)
729757 The Kiss in the Railway Train (colour litho) by Concanen, Alfred (1835-86); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Kiss in the Railway Train)

Garden acraea, common bematistes, and western
Garden acraea butterfly, Acraea horta upper side 1, under side 2, common bematistes, Bematistes epaea A. gea male 3, 4, and western incipient false acraea, Pseudacraea hostilia, Nymphalis hostilia 5

Pied piper, green false acraea and forest admiral butterfly
Pied piper butterfly, Eurytela hiarbas 1, 2, green false acraea, Pseudacraea semire 3, 4, and forest admiral, Antanartia delius 5, 6, upper side and under side. Handcoloured lithograph from John O

Tailed tailless bat and greater false vampire bat
Tailed tailless bat, Anoura caudifer and greater false vampire bat, Megaderma lyra. (Tailless glossophag bat, Glossophaga ecaudala, and megaderma lyre bat, Megaderma lyra)

False dragonhead, Physostegia virginiana (Toothed dragon s-head, Dracocephalum denticulatum). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Sansom from William Curtis Botanical Magazine, London, 1793

English rhubarb, false rhubarb or rhapontic, Rheum rhaponticum. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley

Wild yellow jessamine or false jasmine, Gelsemium sempervirens (Gelsemium nitidum). Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley

Scene from la gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie), opera by Gioachino Rossini (chromolitho)
2815935 Scene from la gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie), opera by Gioachino Rossini (chromolitho) by French School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

True and False Love (engraving)
3646737 True and False Love (engraving) by German School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: True and False Love)

The Kitchener Coffin Hoax: Frank Power, freelance journalist
The Kitchener Coffin Hoax: Frank Power (real name Arthur Vectis Freeman), freelance journalist. who earned notoriety as the author of the Great Kitchener Yarn - Power claimed to have brought

Curtis British Entomology Plate 631
Lepidoptera. Stilbia anomalata = Stilbia anomala (False Footman, The Anomalous) [Plant: Vaccinium uliginosum (Bog Bilberry)] Date: 1824-39

False perspective exemplified (engraving)
960055 False perspective exemplified (engraving) by Hogarth, William (1697-1764) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: False perspective exemplified)

The Idolatry of Solomon, c. 1675 - 1695 (oil on canvas)
1217508 The Idolatry of Solomon, c. 1675 - 1695 (oil on canvas) by Florentine School, (17th Century); 90x66 cm; Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, UK; eAshmolean Museum; Italian, out of copyright

Grocer (colour litho)
3641556 Grocer (colour litho) by English School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Grocer. Postcard, early 20th century.); © Look and Learn

Mirage (chromolitho)
734850 Mirage (chromolitho) by European School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Mirage. Liebig card, late 19th century/early 20th century.); Look and Learn / Rosenberg Collection

Elegant Woman with her doggie, fashion plate from Galerie des Modes et Costumes
CHT268788 Elegant Woman with her doggie, fashion plate from Galerie des Modes et Costumes Francais, engraved by Bacquoy (colour engraving) by French School

Charles de Bourbon, Duke of Normandy, or Baron Richemont
CHT242741 Charles de Bourbon, Duke of Normandy, or Baron Richemont, pretender to the throne of France as King Louis XVII, c.1831-35 (b/w photo) by French School

Mr Boffin and Silas Wegg, illustration for Character Sketches from Dickens
IL193497 Mr Boffin and Silas Wegg, illustration for Character Sketches from Dickens compiled by B.W. Matz, 1924 (colour litho) by Copping, Harold (1863-1932); Private Collection; English

Scene from la gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie), opera by Gioachino Rossini (chromolitho)
2815936 Scene from la gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie), opera by Gioachino Rossini (chromolitho) by French School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

Fair! (colour litho)
2815833 Fair! (colour litho) by English School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Fair! Postcard, early 20th century.); © Look and Learn

British Christmas card (colour litho)
732323 British Christmas card (colour litho) by English School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Go it ye cripples - wooden legs are cheap)

Ash Wednesday. Down with masks (colour litho)
2818367 Ash Wednesday. Down with masks (colour litho) by Meyer, Henri (1841-99) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: Ash Wednesday. Down with masks. Satire on the state of French public life)

Perturbation, plate 4 from The Vicissitude of Human Things, 1564 (engraving)
BCC393576 Perturbation, plate 4 from The Vicissitude of Human Things, 1564 (engraving) by Heemskerck, Maarten van (1498-1574) (after); 22.1x29.5 cm; Private Collection; (add.info)

I know a maiden fair to see, take care, 1868 (oil on paper laid down on canvas)
488118 I know a maiden fair to see, take care, 1868 (oil on paper laid down on canvas) by Perugini, Charles Edward (1839-1918); 54.8x53.8 cm; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, MN

A Right Honourable alias a Sans Coulotte, published by S. Fores, 1802 (engraving)
NCO253709 A Right Honourable alias a Sans Coulotte, published by S.Fores, 1802 (engraving) by Gillray, James (1757-1815); Courtesy of the Warden and Scholars of New College

False as Fair (engraving)
665517 False as Fair (engraving) by Herbert, John Rogers (1810-90); Private Collection; (add.info.: False as Fair. Illustration from The Pictorial Gallery of Arts (London Printing and Publishing)

The worship of the Golden Calf (colour litho)
5226846 The worship of the Golden Calf (colour litho) by Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio of Urbino) (1483-1520) (after); Private Collection; (add.info)

False and true riches (coloured engraving)
5998900 False and true riches (coloured engraving) by French School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: False and true riches)

The Outlandish Knight (chromolitho)
1056883 The Outlandish Knight (chromolitho) by Ralston, William (1848-1911) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Outlandish Knight)

Madame Sarah Bernhardt at "Cleopatra"at the Royal English Opera-House (engraving)
1056220 Madame Sarah Bernhardt at " Cleopatra" at the Royal English Opera-House (engraving) by Paget, Henry Marriott (1856-1936) (after); Private Collection; (add.info)

Japanese feats in balancing upon false noses (engraving)
967319 Japanese feats in balancing upon false noses (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Japanese feats in balancing upon false noses)

The Modern Moloch! or, A View of Society for 1870 (colour litho)
3648291 The Modern Moloch! or, A View of Society for 1870 (colour litho) by Morgan, Matthew " Matt" Somerville (1839-90); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Modern Moloch)

Salon de 1863, Peinture, Les Faux-Monnayeurs (engraving)
3645286 Salon de 1863, Peinture, Les Faux-Monnayeurs (engraving) by French School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Salon de 1863, Peinture, Les Faux-Monnayeurs)

Ouvriere parisienne soufflant une fausse perle (engraving)
2787658 Ouvriere parisienne soufflant une fausse perle (engraving) by French School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Ouvriere parisienne soufflant une fausse perle)

Page from Symbols and Metaphors by Cynicus (colour litho)
2810356 Page from Symbols and Metaphors by Cynicus (colour litho) by Anderson, Martin " Cynicus" (1854-1932); Private Collection; (add.info)

Jezebel (engraving)
667458 Jezebel (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Jezebel. Illustration for Old Testament Portraits by Cunningham Geikie (Strahan, 1878)

False as Fair (engraving)
725880 False as Fair (engraving) by Herbert, John Rogers (1810-90) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: False as Fair. Illustration for The Gallery of Engravings (circa 1880)

The Lie, 1897-98 (woodcut) (pair to 715067)
715067 The Lie, 1897-98 (woodcut) (pair to 715067) by Vallotton, Felix Edouard (1865-1925); 176x22.2 cm; Private Collection; (add.info.: Intimacies; Intimites); Photo eChristies Images; Swiss

Platonic Love, 1870 (oil on panel)
CLK339838 Platonic Love, 1870 (oil on panel) by Zamacois y Zabala, Eduardo (1842-71); 32.6x23.9 cm; Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA; Spanish

Recent Antiquarian Discoveries in Egypt, Mr Flinders Petries Exhibition at Oxford Mansion, Oxford-Street (engraving)
1596144 Recent Antiquarian Discoveries in Egypt, Mr Flinders Petries Exhibition at Oxford Mansion, Oxford-Street (engraving) by Hardy

The false mirrors
Masoud Zirak

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"Unveiling the Deception: Exploring False Hints Across Time and Space" Step into the world of Hogarth's "False Perspective, " where absurdities come to life in satirical form. This steel engraving, dating back to 1860, serves as a reminder that without knowledge of perspective, one is bound to create comical mishaps. Traveling across continents, we find ourselves amidst the vibrant carnival in Port of Spain, Trinidad. Amidst the colorful festivities lies an undercurrent identities and hidden truths waiting to be unraveled. Intriguingly deceptive was the Dreadnought Hoax - an audacious prank that fooled even the most astute minds. A U-2 spy plane adorned with fictitious NASA markings took flight, blurring lines between reality and illusion in 1960s USA. Witness technological marvels unfold before your eyes as you encounter a prosthetic robotic arm through mesmerizing computer artwork. It showcases how science can imitate nature while challenging our perception of what is real. Delving deeper into history reveals Matthew Hopkins' infamous witch-hunting tactics. His false accusations sent shivers down spines during dark times when fear clouded judgment and innocent lives were shattered. The allure of beauty often conceals hidden falsehoods; take for instance lipstick trends from the swinging 1960s. Behind those vibrant shades lay layers of societal expectations and illusions crafted by advertising giants. Venturing into ancient Egypt brings us face-to-face with mysticism embodied by the Eye of Horus and Senenmut's false door. These symbols remind us that even within sacred spaces, there may lie enigmatic facades awaiting decipherment. Operation Mincemeat takes us on a wartime journey where naval ID cards became tools for deception. Major Martin's fabricated identity played a pivotal role in strategic maneuvers during World War II – showcasing how truth could be manipulated for greater good or ill intent.