Object Details
Catalogue Status
Research in Progress
Description
Magic lantern slide, optical toy. On black field, yellow disk at center, surrounded by pink, green, and black circles alternating with circles of pierced stars and dots. Radiating toward circumference, thirty-two pierced rays alternating with thirty-two white rays set with triangular green rays pierced in serpentine forms.
Credit Line
Museum purchase through gift of Mary Hearn Greims and George A. Hearn and from the Misses Hewitt Fund
Date
ca. 1780
Accession Number
1937-18-25
Restrictions & Rights
CC0
Type
toys & games
Object Name
Lantern slide
Type
Lantern slide
Medium
Cut paper on wood frame
Dimensions
H x W: 44.7 × 50 cm (17 5/8 × 19 11/16 in.)
made in
Savoy, France
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Data Source
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Link to Original Record
Record ID
chndm_1937-18-25