A picture taken from the Dictionnaire Encyclopédique Trousset, published in Paris between 1886 – 1891.
According to the caption, the various examples of hand shadow puppetry shown in this picture can be reproduced to cast on a wall the silhouettes of the following animals: a reindeer, a chamois, a ewe, a camel, a pig, a goose, a wolf, a goat, an elephant, a hare, a bear, an ox, a dog, a butterfly, an ass.
[via the wonderful Old Book Illustrations blog]
