Unbeknownst to me at the time but I've posted a William Makepeace Thackeray transformation card previously. He'd conceived of the idea of such a set of cards while on board the steamer Canada en route to the United States in 1852. He soon grew bored of the project and 21 of them were published posthumously in 1876 as part of The Orphan of Pimlico which his daughter edited and refined with the original drawings apparently getting a face-lift for the new publication. Additional cards which were more racy and racist in nature were seemingly excluded. Had they not been of such a nature they likely would have had an official release in the general card market as Thackeray had envisioned upon conception of the deck, though it was seemingly a disjointed project. While the whimsical nature doesn't appeal to me the vibrant colors contrasted with the starkness of the black ink definitely does. I shall endeavor to post the entire published deck as well as various miscellaneous found cards.
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