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[[clippings showing three optical illusion paintings and how to view them, glued to the page]] [[first clipping]] [[top left color photo of a confusing, distorted image of a room; top right photo the confusing image resolved as a regular room with a dog, when seen through a peephole. [[Printing below the photos: Detail of Samuel van Hoogstraeten's "Dutch Interior" as painted (left) and as seen through peephole.]] [[photo credit running down right side of right image: "REPRODUCTION. ORIGINAL IN NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY, LONDON."]] [[/first clipping]] [[second clipping]] [[color photo of a distorted (anamorphic) portrait in a distorted oval with lettering]] [[Print below the photo: "portrait of Edward VI" by William Scrots as it appears frontally (above) and sideways through frame (right).[[red arrow pointing to this image from the right. Undistorted image seen as viewed from the side appears below right, with photo credit: "REPRODUCTION. ORIGINAL IN NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY, LONDON." [[/second clipping]] [[third clipping]] [[color photo (left) of a framed painting of two men in medieval costume standing beside a tabled with an oriental covering upon which are various books, scientific and musical instruments. On the mosaic tile floor near their feet is a black and white distorted image.]] [[Printing below the photo: In "The Ambassadors" by Hans Holbein the Younger, the elongated form in the foreground appears as a skull (right) when viewed from above right.]] [[color photo (right) of a skull.]] [[photo credit running across top of photo: "REPRODUCTION. ORIGINAL IN NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY, LONDON."]] [[/third clipping]]
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