Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Magic lantern slide, optical toy. On black field, garden house composed of piers and lintels, with half-dome over arched central portion. At top center, a disk with rays of varying length; below, a whorl, an eight-pointed star, and two interlaced triangles forming a six-pointed star suspended above a flower pot. Two medallions suspended from lintel of summer house at either side with text: VIVA / CHI / VEDE; pink, green, and white 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
- 1937-18-14
- 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 × 50 cm (17 5/8 × 19 11/16 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_1937-18-14
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq471f203d7-e66b-434d-8771-55d56bb65ccb
