Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Magic lantern slide, optical toy. On black field, garden pavilion with eight twisted columns; broken out in a semicircle in central portion, which is crowned with a dome. In central intercolumniation, the shield of the House of Savoy with charioteers' heads in the quarterings. In right and left intercolumniation, ciphers set in lozenges. At top, five-pointed star from which dart lightning bolts.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of Mary Hearn Greims and George A. Hearn and from the Misses Hewitt Fund
- ca. 1780
- Accession Number
- 1937-18-21
- 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 × 49.7 cm (17 5/8 × 19 9/16 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_1937-18-21
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq49eb85cf7-d8da-44a7-8558-3ad2285163b0
