Magic Lantern Collection

The Magic Lantern - drawn by H. G. Hine, 1858. Creator: M. Jackson
The Magic Lantern - drawn by H. G. Hine, 1858. "What fun! He has got hold of the Chinaman by his pigtail!"...a chorus of joyous laughter burst from fifty young spectators

The Show-man, 1799. Creator: Monogrammist J.A
The Show-man, 1799. Keep your eye close to the Glass - and you will see a large / vide place full of Death and Destruction - where more / plagues await de frequenters den contained in de famous Box

Man with a viewing box, and a seller of songs, 1868-1928. Creator: Henry Reynolds Steer
Man with a viewing box, and a seller of songs, 1868-1928. A blind man with an early version of a magic lantern is accompanied by a young woman selling sheet music

Chinese viewer, c.1800-c.1850. Creator: Anon
Chinese viewer, c.1800-c.1850. Under a parasol is a Chinese man on a barrel. In front of him is a viewing box with three holes on a wooden base

Chinese viewer, 1805 or later. Creator: Anon
Chinese viewer, 1805 or later. On a table with a border with Chinese characters are two viewing boxes with two viewing holes each

The Seventh Month, ca. 1767. Creator: Ishikawa Toyomasa
The Seventh Month, ca. 1767

Orage causepar l Impot sur le Theen Amerique, ca. 1775. ca. 1775. Creator: Anon
Orage cause par l Impot sur le The en Amerique, ca. 1775

The Tea-Tax-Tempest, or Old Time with his Magick Lanthern, March 12, 1783. March 12, 1783. Creator: Anon
The Tea-Tax-Tempest, or Old Time with his Magick Lanthern, March 12, 1783

The Peep Show, or the Magic Lantern (La Curiositeou La Lanterne Magique)
The Peep Show, or the Magic Lantern (La Curiosite ou La Lanterne Magique), Sevres, c. 1757

A Magic Lantern, January 30, 1799. Creator: Henri Merke
A Magic Lantern, January 30, 1799

Laterna Magica, 1786-1788. Creator: Abildgaard, Nicolai Abraham (1743-1809)
Laterna Magica, 1786-1788. Found in the collection of Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

Magic lantern, c. 1790. Creator: Anonymous master
Magic lantern, c. 1790. Private Collection

Peep Show Image, ca 1770. Creator: Anonymous
Peep Show Image, ca 1770. Private Collection

Getting Electric Light ready -- H. M. S. Edinburgh, c1900. Creator: Unknown
Getting Electric Light ready -- H.M.S. Edinburgh, c1900. From " The British Navy - Primus Magic Lantern Slides - Junior Lecturers Series B". [W. Butcher & Sons]

The Diver -- H. M. S. Blake, c1900. Creator: Unknown
The Diver -- H.M.S. Blake, c1900. From " The British Navy - Primus Magic Lantern Slides - Junior Lecturers Series B". [W. Butcher & Sons]

After Barbette -- H. M. S. Revenger, c1900. Creator: Unknown
After Barbette -- H.M.S. Revenger, c1900. From " The British Navy - Primus Magic Lantern Slides - Junior Lecturers Series B". [W. Butcher & Sons]

Working a 3-pounder -- H. M. S. Blake, c1900. Creator: Unknown
Working a 3-pounder -- H.M.S. Blake, c1900. From " The British Navy - Primus Magic Lantern Slides - Junior Lecturers Series B". [W. Butcher & Sons]

A Modern Battleship -- H. M. S. Jupiter, c1900. Creator: Unknown
A Modern Battleship -- H.M.S. Jupiter, c1900. From " The British Navy - Primus Magic Lantern Slides - Junior Lecturers Series B". [W. Butcher & Sons]

The Battle of Trafalgar, c1900. Creator: Unknown
The Battle of Trafalgar, c1900. Twenty-seven British ships of the line led by Admiral Lord Nelson aboard HMS Victory defeated thirty-three French

The Fleet at Spithead, 1853, c1900. Creator: Unknown
The Fleet at Spithead, 1853, c1900. From " The British Navy - Primus Magic Lantern Slides - Junior Lecturers Series B". [W. Butcher & Sons]

To the rescue: the life-buoy, c1900. Creator: Unknown
To the rescue: the life-buoy, c1900. From " Primus Magic Lantern Slides - Junior Lecturers Series B". [W. Butcher & Sons]

Saved!, c1900. Creator: Unknown
Saved!, c1900. From " Primus Magic Lantern Slides - Junior Lecturers Series B". [W. Butcher & Sons]

Wreck of the Northam Castle, c1900. Creator: Unknown
Wreck of the Northam Castle, c1900. From " Primus Magic Lantern Slides - Junior Lecturers Series B". [W. Butcher & Sons]

Palling Boat: Throwing the life-line, c1900. Creator: Unknown
Palling Boat: Throwing the life-line, c1900. From " Primus Magic Lantern Slides - Junior Lecturers Series B". [W. Butcher & Sons]

Joseph Cox: Coxswain of the Hope, c1900. Creator: Unknown
Joseph Cox: Coxswain of the Hope, c1900. From " Primus Magic Lantern Slides - Junior Lecturers Series B". [W. Butcher & Sons]

On the way to the wreck, c1900. Creator: Unknown
On the way to the wreck, c1900. From " Primus Magic Lantern Slides - Junior Lecturers Series B". [W. Butcher & Sons]

Launching the Life-boat, c1900. Creator: Unknown
Launching the Life-boat, c1900. From " Primus Magic Lantern Slides - Junior Lecturers Series B". [W. Butcher & Sons]

The Life-boat Men, c1900. Creator: Unknown
The Life-boat Men, c1900. From " Primus Magic Lantern Slides - Junior Lecturers Series B". [W. Butcher & Sons]

Magic lantern showing Death (from Ars Magna Lucis), 1671. Creator: Kircher, Athanasius (1602-1680)
Magic lantern showing Death (from Ars Magna Lucis), 1671. Private Collection

Polyorama Panoptique, c1851. Box with expanding bellows, a lens, a shutter and a set of slides that can be inserted. By altering the aperture of the shutter the image on the slide changes from day

Man, woman and children in the mountains of Savoy, ca 1797. Private Collection

The Peepshow Man. Private Collection

Little Pauls Christmas, 1881. Artist: Anonymous
Little Pauls Christmas, 1881. Private Collection

Magic lantern, 1671 (1956). The projection of an image of a man burning in Hell. The image was produced by light from a lamp which travelled down the lens

A Magic Lantern, 1737-1742. Artist: Bouchardon
A Magic Lantern, 1737-1742. A woman with a portable picture show. Part of a series called Paris Street Cries, by Bouchardon

The Organ Player, 1737-1742. Artist: Bouchardon
The Organ Player, 1737-1742. Part of a series called Paris Street Cries, by Bouchardon

A Showman, Hyde Park Corner, London, 1805. A copper plate representing the itinerant traders of London, from Modern London; Being the History and Present State of the British Metropolis

Spectrum analysis, 1873. A magic lantern being used to project slides during a lecture on spectrum analysis at the Royal Polytechnic Institution, London

Jean Martin Charcot demonstrating hypnosis, 1879. Charcot (1825-1893), French neurologist and pathologist, demonstrating the production of hypnosis using beam of light from a magic lantern

Camera obscura, 1646. A double camera obscura, rather out of scale, showing an image of a man burning in Hell. The image was produced by light from a lamp which travelled down the lens

Frontispiece from Athanasius Kirchers Ars Magna Lucis Et Umbrae. To the left is a woman as the personification of the sun, with the symbols of the zodiac covering her body

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