Magic lantern - On the wild billows. part 2

part 2

On the wild billows.....
ships, boats, a raft..... everything that floats on the water
(but sometimes sinks).


1. There in the midst, an ocean waif.	2. See! as she rolls and dips to meet each waif.	3. Listen! 'tis her child softly singing in her sleep.	4. The morn rose clear - no sign of storm or gale.
	The Raft is a brilliant coloured set of five Life Model magic lantern slides with costumed actors creating scenes to illustrate the story. It tells the tale of a woman and her child stranded on a raft in rough stormy seas and rescued. 3.25 inch square, c. 1890.
5. They brought the child and mother in safety from the raft.			The complete set of slides.

Set of four magic lantern slides "Voyage of Life". Four standard 3" circular glass images mounted in 4" x 7" mahogany frames.

"The Voyage of Life" was a series of four oil paintings by New York landscape artist Thomas Cole (1801-1848). The four huge canvases, painted in 1839, were romantic landscapes, through which a tiny boat made its perilous way. Each painting represented a different stage in life's progress, reflected by the occupants of the boat: Childhood, Youth, Adulthood and Old Age.

Very pleasant image of a gentleman rowing his boat. One slide from a series 'Temperance entertainment 1'. The slide is numbered '2' and labeled 'T. Mayne Dublin - The Rapids'. It is made by the English manufacturer York and Son.



The best known work of the French painter Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault is entitled 'The Raft of the Medusa' (c. 1819). It depicts the aftermath of a contemporary French shipwreck, whose survivors embarked on a raft and were decimated by starvation before being rescued at sea.		The painting was depicted on several magic lantern slides and..... .... many years later parodied in the comic strip Asterix and Obelix.