![]() ![]() The print and the backing tissue were then mounted together, sandwiched between two cardboard frames - each with twin cut-out 'windows' for the prints, and the whole was glued together to make a French Tissue stereo card. Behind this pair of prints was added a layer of tissue paper, which hid the 'works' to the rear surface of the view. The eyes of each skeleton were then pricked out with a sharp instrument, and small pieces of red gel, or blobs of reddened varnish, were applied to the back of the pricked holes. The resulting stereo pair of prints was made on thin albumen paper, and water-colours were applied - not to the front surface, as in the case of normal stereo cards, like the 'Scenes in Our Village' cards shown elsewhere on this site - but to the back of the prints. The scenes depicted in these Diableries were made in clay, on a table-top, with amazing skill, by a small bunch of gifted sculptors, and then photographed with a stereo camera. An enlarged view of one half of the stereo card ![]()
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