Prints part 2

Prints. part 2
Paintings, pictures from books, engravings, drawings, and other images depicting the magic lantern.

Advice from the other World or a peep in the Magic Lanthorn. An English coloured engraving dated 1820.
Measures about 13 7/8" x 8 3/4" (35.2 cm x 22.1 cm).

Photo: ©Pierre Patau, antiquetoysandgames.com.

The Kentish hop merchant and the lecturer on optics. An English hand coloured engraving dating from around 1805 showing a magic lantern with slide on the lecturer table.
Measures about 15 3/4" x 10 1/8" (40 cm x 25.7 cm).

Photo: ©Pierre Patau, antiquetoysandgames.com.

Photo: ©Pierre Patau, antiquetoysandgames.com.

The reception of the diplomatique and his suite at the court of Pekin (sic), a large English hand coloured engraving published in 1792 by James Gillray. This is a later, 19th century edition of this print.

Among the toys being offered to the Emperor one can see a magic lantern.

Measures about 24 3/4" x 19" (63 cm x 48.5 cm).

Illustration in a 1882 Puck Magazine, caption: How Heroes Are Made--The Western Desperado's Eastern Ally. Full colour back cover image of Jesse James in a Magic Lantern slide. Size: 13.25" x 10.25" (33,5 x 26 cm).

PHANTASMAGORIA, A VIEW IN ELEPHANTA.
The engraving is the work of the famous caricaturists Thomas Rowlandson. The book is a satire against the Marquis of Hastings, Governor General of India. Rowlandson is using the magic lantern as allegory. The lantern parts are labelled "Liberality" and "Retrospection" and the audience members are "Misery", "Avarice", and "Vice".

Calendar illustration by the well known Dutch artist Anton Pieck. This colourful picture measures 22 x 15 cm. Calendar 1985.

More about Anton Pieck.

Le Singe qui montre la lanterne magique.
One of the many book illustrations that are published on the well known fable by Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian about the monkey displaying the magic lantern. C. 1865.

Entrez, entrez, messieurs, criait notre Jacqueau;
C'est ici, c'est ici qu'un spectacle nouveau
Vous charmera gratis : oui, messieurs, à la porte
On ne prend point d'argent, je fais tout pour l'honneur.