In the 1860s and 1870s, aristocratic Victorian women created complex and imaginative photocollages. Using photographs and traditional art materials such as pen and ink or watercolors, they whimsically combined human heads and animal bodies, populated imaginary landscapes and elaborate drawing rooms, and animated the faces of playing cards, stamps, and decorative objects. This photocollage cleverly incorporates carte-de-visite portraits into drawn scenes as if they were grand painted portraits in a stately manor. Made for private pleasure rather than public consumption, such photocollages debunk the cliché of stuffy Victorian society and reveal the educated minds, accomplished hands, and wry wit of their makers.