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SHADOW PICTURES, SHADOW THEATERS, SILHOUETTES 93 pared. Scrapbooks, filled with sil- houettes cut from white paper and mounted on black paper, contained family groups, schoolroom scenes, etc. They perpetuated manners, customs and events for the education of posterity. A- collection of silhouettes dated 1804 had preserved religious proces- sions and ceremonies, country and domestic scenes, children's games and affairs. He located in Holland. He lost his fortune in the Dutch evacuation of 1813. Then he came to England. To retrieve his losses in Holland, he made portraits and other devices out of human hair. He then turned his attention to cutting silhouettes. • So clever was he, he was soon enjoying the patronage of the royalty of the British Isles. In 1831 we find him at Edinburgh, By pmnhsJoH ufR Fi.ammaiuos, Pari*, anil the Ckstdbv Magazink THE SPHINX II: JIOSES LEADING HIS PEOPLE OUT OF EGYPT (From a shadow picture by AsrEDEE Vigkola) the like. They had been cut out and mounted with great delicacy. Madame Tussaud, who made the famous wax models in the Palais Royal during the French Revolution, had a son who took "profile likenesses." August Edouart was another fa- mous Frenchman who was particu- larly noted as a scissor man. He was the most prolific and important of the scissorgraphists. Like Etienne de Sil- houette, August Edouart quit France owing to a change of government not favorable to him and his personal Scotland, cutting Sir Walter Scott's silhouette, also that of Charles X. The latter was then an exile in Holyrood Castle, Edinburgh. In 1835 he had Paganini's silhouette reposing in his album. The great violinist said it was the only likeness not a caricature. That same year he enthralled his patrons by cutting such extremely clever pictures as full hunting scenes, cavalry skirmishes and other sports. He cut Napoleon's silhouette, then mounted it on a scenic background like a modern lithograph. These par-