Magnetism and mesmerism. Matters relating thereto / Collected by Giles Deere [?].

Deere, Giles. · 1840 · [London, etc.] : [publisher not identified], [1840-1845] · 6 pictures

A mid-nineteenth-century English scrapbook-style compilation on animal magnetism and mesmerism, collected by Giles Deere, with its date and publisher uncertain, apparently gathered for a general reader. The pictures are wood-engraved and etched scenes: a seated mesmerist with a dancing woman in an interior, a bearded portrait, a skeletal subject on a bed, and a parlour group listening to a tale, which together offer designers a range of period crowd, portrait and gothic-interior motifs.

Animal magnetism · Hypnosis

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