The Talking Head

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An small audience looks at a table on which the severed head of a man is staring back and talking

The Talking Head.

(P. 153.)

Artist

Name:: Gilbert, C.
Dates:: 18??-18??
Country:: France

Illustration

Subject:: Science & Technology
Technique:: Wood Engraving
Format:: Landscape (wider)
Source:: The Getty Research Institute, The Internet Archive

Book

Title:: Les récréations scientifiques
Author:: Tissandier, Gaston
Publisher:: Paris: G. Masson, n.d. [1884]

Description:

An audience of five people is looking at a tripod table on which the severed head of a bearded man is seemingly staring back and talking. The Talking Head was an act based on the use of mirrors for optical effect and is said by the author to have met with great success in Paris and other cities.

The caption reads in the original French: Le décapité parlant.

Caption taken from the English edition titled Popular scientific recreations in natural philosophy, astronomy, geology, chemistry. London: Ward, Lock, and Co., n.d. [ca. 1882].

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