My name is Sunish Chabba, and I, along with my friend & illustrator, Ishan Trivedi, are proud to introduce you to A Motley Pack – Transformation Playing Cards. This project is based on a rare & almost forgotten work of art & high creativity titled On the Cards; Or, A Motley Pack by the Australian writer, dramatist, journalist and publisher Garnet Walch that was published in Melbourne in 1875. Published as a Pantomime in the form of a Christmas Annual, the book consists of 40 transformed playing cards illustrated by Australian poet George Gordon McCrae. WoPC notes that George McCrae also wrote novels, stories, poetry, travel sketches and illustrated books. Some of his sketches may have been inspired by his travels to Mauritius and the Seychelles, as well as by Aboriginal people.

Funded through Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sunishchabba/a-motley-pack-transformation-playing-cards

Full deck scan by macstrat @ https://cardscans.piwigo.com/index?/category/321-a_motley_pack_royal_edition