File:Lantern Slide, Moon, ca. 1780 (CH 18344159).jpg

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English: Lantern Slide, Moon, ca. 1780   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Title
English: Lantern Slide, Moon, ca. 1780
Description
English: 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.
Date circa 1780
date QS:P571,+1780-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium cut paper on wood frame
Dimensions H x W: 44.7 × 50 cm (17 5/8 × 19 11/16 in.)
institution QS:P195,Q1129820
Current location
Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design
Accession number
1937-18-25
Credit line Museum purchase through gift of Mary Hearn Greims and George A. Hearn and from the Misses Hewitt Fund
Notes
  • Type: Lantern slide
  • Inscribed: Inscribed on label, verso: But the sun comes, and then is eclipsed when it meets the moon, but then in a little while it changes, and its splendor triumphs again.
  • Country: Italy
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