Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Magic lantern slide, optical toy. On black field, representation of a garden: hedges on either side receding into background, and alternating coves and tall trees. In center, fountain crowned by rayed circle, above which is a whorl with a dragon at the top. White, yellow, green, blue, and pink transparencies.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of Mary Hearn Greims and George A. Hearn and from the Misses Hewitt Fund
- ca. 1780
- Accession Number
- 1937-18-17
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- toys & games
- Object Name
- Lantern slide
- Type
- Lantern slide
- Medium
- Cut paper on wood frame
- Dimensions
- H x W: 44.8 × 49.9 cm (17 5/8 × 19 5/8 in.)
- made in
- Savoy, France
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1937-18-17
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq46985f3df-ff97-4338-a613-61cd9f960b86
