Mirror Swap #15 <--- Norwalk, Iowa, US

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I continued my correspondence with this Postcrosser from Iowa, US, and she readily sent me a few cards with mirrors she had.

The one above is a painting by American artist Morris Hirshfield, Seated Nude with a Mirror (c. 1942). See more artworks below. 


This is not really a mirror, but a reflection in a space helmet's glass (and not even a real one but borrowed from the Doctor Who's episode Meeting the Impossible Astronaut. This particular incarnation of the Time Lord is acted by Matt Smith.   



Interestingly, but I already have one space helmet 'mirror' in my small collection of mirror postcards, from a very different context though. 


Shimura Tatsumi - The bath 



Technically speaking, there is no 'mirror' here, but we could assume it's 'there', on small toilette table. I have a copy of a wonderful woodblock print with a mirror by Shimura Tatsumi (not a postcard), but he also has a number of prints with similar allusions to a mirror. 


Illusion is the first of all pleasures - Voltair (a card from the Bibliophilia Series), c. 2015 




Childe Hassam - Twenty-Six of June, Old Lyme (c.1912)




The last was not a postcard, but two photographs of the same art work, a small figurine of a woman with a mirror:






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