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"Unveiling the Deception: Exploring False Hints Across Time and Space" Step into the world of Hogarth's "False Perspective

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13131769
Coton de Tulear Dog wearing false nose Groucho glasses Date: 18-11-2019

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13131718
Burmilla Cat / Asian X breed kitten wearing Vampire Halloween costume Date: 05-10-2015

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13131263
Chimpanzee - showing lips kissing wearing false nose Groucho glasses and party hat Date: 18-11-2019

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13131043
Deer, in winter snow with Rudolph red nose, wearing Christmas hat Date: 05-01-2016

Background imageFalse Collection: The stolen ribbon (gravure)

The stolen ribbon (gravure)
3620939 The stolen ribbon (gravure) by Leloir, Maurice (1853-1940); Private Collection; (add.info.: The stolen ribbon. Le ruban vole)

Background imageFalse Collection: The processes and apparatus of taxidermy (litho)

The processes and apparatus of taxidermy (litho)
6013434 The processes and apparatus of taxidermy (litho) by English School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The processes and apparatus of taxidermy)

Background imageFalse Collection: Design for a Stable (engraving)

Design for a Stable (engraving)
5213564 Design for a Stable (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Design for a Stable, Mr W Crosland, Architect)

Background imageFalse Collection: Comic postcard, Elderly woman combing mans beard Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Elderly woman combing mans beard Date: 20th century

Background imageFalse Collection: Comic postcard, Boy lets out a secret Date: early 20th century

Comic postcard, Boy lets out a secret Date: early 20th century

Background imageFalse Collection: Comic postcard, Middle aged couple on their honeymoon

Comic postcard, Middle aged couple on their honeymoon - which half do I sleep with? Date: 20th century

Background imageFalse Collection: False Christmas cactus, Schlumbergera truncata

False Christmas cactus, Schlumbergera truncata (Epiphyllum truncatum). Chromolithograph from an illustration by Desire Bois from Edward Steps Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse

Background imageFalse Collection: False nettle, Boehmeria caudata

False nettle, Boehmeria caudata, Boemeria codata. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Laurent de Jussieus Dizionario delle Scienze Naturali, Dictionary of Natural Science

Background imageFalse Collection: Hedyosmum bonplandianum

Hedyosmum bonplandianum Hediosmon bonplandianum, Ediosmo del Bonpland. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Laurent de Jussieus Dizionario delle Scienze Naturali

Background imageFalse Collection: Quill moss or false fern moss, Cyathophorum bulbosum

Quill moss or false fern moss, Cyathophorum bulbosum, native to Australia. Leskea pennata, Hookeria pennata. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Laurent de Jussieus Dizionario

Background imageFalse Collection: Skeletons of extinct dinosaurs Ichthyosaurus

Skeletons of extinct dinosaurs Ichthyosaurus communis 1 and Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus 2. Ittiosauro comune, Plesiosauro dolicodeiro

Background imageFalse Collection: False fiddleleaf, Hydrolea spinosa

False fiddleleaf, Hydrolea spinosa. Idrolea spinosa. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Laurent de Jussieus Dizionario delle Scienze Naturali, Dictionary of Natural Science

Background imageFalse Collection: Trochetia triflora

Trochetia triflora, Trochezia di tre fiori. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Laurent de Jussieus Dizionario delle Scienze Naturali, Dictionary of Natural Science, Florence

Background imageFalse Collection: Pink swamp heath, Sprengelia incarnata

Pink swamp heath, Sprengelia incarnata, Sprengelia carnicina. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Laurent de Jussieus Dizionario delle Scienze Naturali

Background imageFalse Collection: Bristle fern, Trichomanes botryoides

Bristle fern, Trichomanes botryoides, Feea nana, Imenostachide diversifronde, Hymenostachys diversifrons. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Laurent de Jussieus Dizionario delle

Background imageFalse Collection: Red algae, Claudea elegans

Red algae, Claudea elegans. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieus Dizionario delle Scienze Naturali, Dictionary of Natural Science, Florence, Italy, 1837

Background imageFalse Collection: Cartoon, The False Start (Gladstone)

Cartoon, The False Start (Gladstone)
Cartoon, The False Start -- Gladstone is depicted as a jockey on a horse named Democracy. The Starter, Palmerston, calls out that hes started too soon

Background imageFalse Collection: Title page for Fables by Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian (1755-94) from

Title page for Fables by Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian (1755-94) from
CHT163766 Title page for Fables by Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian (1755-94) from Le Miroir de la Verite (engraving) (b/w photo) by Grandville (Jean Ignace Isidore Gerard) (1803-47)

Background imageFalse Collection: People of Israel Punished for Worshipping False Gods in around 1478

People of Israel Punished for Worshipping False Gods in around 1478
880466 People of Israel Punished for Worshipping False Gods in around 1478, from The Koberger Bible, Nuremberg, 1483 (hand-coloured woodcut) by German School

Background imageFalse Collection: Portrait of Billy Waters, c. 1820 (etching and engraving with w / c)

Portrait of Billy Waters, c. 1820 (etching and engraving with w / c)
MGS180353 Portrait of Billy Waters, c.1820 (etching and engraving with w/c) by English School, (19th century); 15.5x10.7 cm; Private Collection; eMichael Graham-Stewart; English, out of copyright

Background imageFalse Collection: Advert, Maison Nicol, Ladies Hair Pieces

Advert, Maison Nicol, Ladies Hair Pieces
Advert for Maison Nicol, Haymarket, London, Ladies Hair Pieces, Extensions, Wigs, etc. 1897

Background imageFalse Collection: Advert, George Lichtenfeld, Ladies Hair Pieces

Advert, George Lichtenfeld, Ladies Hair Pieces
Advert for George Lichtenfeld, Great Portland Street, Regent Street and Piccadilly, London, Ladies Hair Pieces, Extensions and Wigs. 1897

Background imageFalse Collection: Advert, Florian Sobocinski, Hair Pieces

Advert, Florian Sobocinski, Hair Pieces
Advert for Florian Sobocinski, Sidney Place, Leicester Square, London, Ladies Hair Pieces, Extensions and Implants, as well as face massage and manicure. 1897

Background imageFalse Collection: Mathurin Bruneau (1784-1825) pretender to the throne of France as King Louis XVII, c

Mathurin Bruneau (1784-1825) pretender to the throne of France as King Louis XVII, c
CHT245049 Mathurin Bruneau (1784-1825) pretender to the throne of France as King Louis XVII, c.1818 (colour engraving) by French School, (19th century); Musee de la Ville de Paris, Musee Carnavalet

Background imageFalse Collection: Common green birdwing and false apollo butterflies

Common green birdwing and false apollo butterflies
Common green birdwing, Ornithoptera priamus, butterfly, caterpillar and pupa, and false apollo, Archon apollinus (Doritis apollinus)

Background imageFalse Collection: False indigo-bush, Amorpha fruticosa

False indigo-bush, Amorpha fruticosa (Fragrant bastard indigo, Amorpha fragrans). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after a botanical illustration by Edward Dalton Smith from Robert

Background imageFalse Collection: False musk orchid, Chamorchis alpina

False musk orchid, Chamorchis alpina. Handcoloured lithograph from Diederich von Schlechtendals German Flora (Flora von Deutschland), Jena, 1871

Background imageFalse Collection: False lily of the valley or May lily, Maianthemum bifolium

False lily of the valley or May lily, Maianthemum bifolium. Handcoloured lithograph from Diederich von Schlechtendals German Flora (Flora von Deutschland), Jena, 1871

Background imageFalse Collection: Spectral bat or false vampire bat, Vampyrum spectrum

Spectral bat or false vampire bat, Vampyrum spectrum. Vespertilio spectrum Linn. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Hermann Jakob Tyroff from Johann Christian Daniel Schrebers Animal Illustrations

Background imageFalse Collection: Bat heads

Bat heads. Including great fruit-eating bat, Pallass long-tongued bat, leafnose bat, vampire bat, striped hairy-nosed bat, lesser false vampire bat, and yellow-winged bat

Background imageFalse Collection: Morel and jelly baby mushrooms

Morel and jelly baby mushrooms
Half-free morel, Morchella semilibera, jelly baby, Leotia lubrica, and false morel, Verpa digitaliformis. Chromolithograph by Lassus after an illustration by A

Background imageFalse Collection: Lizards and skinks

Lizards and skinks
Caecilian, amphisbaenian or worm lizard, grass lizard, blindsnake, false coral snake, European legless lizard, and skinks

Background imageFalse Collection: False flax oil, Camelina sativa

False flax oil, Camelina sativa. Handcoloured woodblock print by Wolfgang Meyerpick after an illustration by Giorgio Liberale from Pietro Andrea Mattiolis Discorsi di P.A

Background imageFalse Collection: Southern festoon, Spanish festoon, false apollo

Southern festoon, Spanish festoon, false apollo
Southern festoon, Zerynthia polyxena, Spanish festoon, Zerynthia rumina, false apollo, Archon apollinus, and eastern festoon, Allancastria cerisyi

Background imageFalse Collection: Painted lady, false comma, and comma butterfly variety

Painted lady, false comma, and comma butterfly variety
Painted lady, Vanessa cardui, false comma, Nymphalis vaualbum, and comma butterfly variety, Polygonia c-album. Handcoloured steel engraving by the Pauquet brothers after an illustration by Alexis

Background imageFalse Collection: Green hellebore, Helleborus viridis, and false

Green hellebore, Helleborus viridis, and false helleborine, Veratrum album. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Background imageFalse Collection: Ragged Robin, Lychnis flos-cuculi, and black

Ragged Robin, Lychnis flos-cuculi, and black false hellebore, Veratrum nigrum. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Background imageFalse Collection: Woody fleabane, Dittrichia viscosa, and false

Woody fleabane, Dittrichia viscosa, and false fleabane, Pulicaria minor. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Background imageFalse Collection: False Solomons seal, Maianthemum stellatum

False Solomons seal, Maianthemum stellatum (Convallaria stellata). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Cooke from Conrad Loddiges Botanical Cabinet, Hackney, 1825

Background imageFalse Collection: Lobster-claw plant, Heliconia wagneriana

Lobster-claw plant, Heliconia wagneriana (Heliconia aureo-striata). Chromolithograph by P. de Pannemaeker from Jean Lindens l Illustration Horticole, Brussels, 1882

Background imageFalse Collection: Norths false flag, Neomarica northiana

Norths false flag, Neomarica northiana (Marica northiana var. splendens). Chromolithograph by Pieter de Pannemaeker after an illustration by A

Background imageFalse Collection: Betrothed girl of Marken Island, North Holland

Betrothed girl of Marken Island, North Holland, Netherlands, 19th century. In traditional costume that is unchanged since the 13th century

Background imageFalse Collection: Irish moss and false Irish moss

Irish moss and false Irish moss
Irish moss or carrageen moss, Chondrus crispus, and false Irish moss, Mastocarpus stellatus (Gigartina mamillosa). Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration from Hermann Adolph Koehlers

Background imageFalse Collection: Northern ghost bat and spectral bat

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



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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.