Excerpt from Celebrated Crimes of the Russian Court

It was the mode at one time to make portraits of a notable person in the Janus mode, with two heads, "facing both ways." Philip of Champagne went farther by presenting his patron Cardinal Richelieu in three ways, two profiles and a central full face. But to fully portray Alexandre Dumas his likeness would have to be shown by the multiscope, for each of his many phases suffice to make an eminent one-feature man.

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