Kircher

Anon

Engraving

1671

 

Double spread from Anthanasius Kircher's Ars Magna Lucis et Umbrae...2d ed.(The Great Art of Light and Shadow).  Amsterdam:Published by Apud Joannem Janssonium a Waesberg & hareredes Elizaei Weyerstraet

 

0098




Anon

Engraving

Germany

1686

15" x 12 1/2"

 

Double page from Johann Zahn's Oculus Artificialis Teledioptricus sive Telescopium(B188).

 

0099





Italian Manuscript

Anon.

Pen and ink

Italy

c. 1690

4 1/2" x 6 1/2"

 

An unsigned manuscript  of 169 pages(B110). It includes many illustrations, of optical devices including peepshows, and a magic lantern.

0105

 



AL CIGNO

Anon

Wood cut

Italy

c. 1700

Detail: 1 1/2" x  3, page: 8" x 13"

 

0106


The Magical Lantern

Monfieur Ozanam

Engraving

1708

Detail:3 1/2" x 3 7/8", page: 4 1/2" x 7 1/2"

 

From Recreations Mathematical and Physical(B239) by Monfieur Ozanam> Published in London.

 

0107


L'Optique

Charles Nicholas Cochin after J. Lajoue

Engraving

France

c. 1750

14 1/2" x 12"

 

This is an artistic representation of part of the cabinet(collection) of the Duc de Picquingny. There are many optical instruments to be found in this engraving including the magic lantern and two anamorphic mirrors.

 

 

0117


The Magic Lantern, Paul before Felix

Paul Sandby

Engraving

Great Britain

1753

8 3/4" x 6 1/2"

 

Hogarth, who is pictured in a unflattering manner, mouth is open and is shown as if it was a lantern projecting an image. Sandy was mocking Hogarth who he supposedly found full of self-conceit.

 

0120


La Lanterne Magique

Jean  Ouvrier(1725-1754) after J. E. Schenau

Engraving

France

1765

13 3/4" x 19"

 

0122


Lanterne Magique

Anon

Engraving

1773

2 1/2" x 2"

 

 

0126

 

 



Das Schatten Spiel

Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki(1726-1801)

Copper engraving

Germany

c. 1790

2 x 3 1/2"

 

One of a set of twelve engravings.

 

0142


Anon

Engraving

Germany

1795

13" x 8"

 

One plate from Oekonomische-technological Encyklopäedie(B291) by Johann Georg Kruenitz,Berlin.

 

0145


Cupids Magick Lantern

George Moutard Woodward

Hand-colored Engraving

London, England

1797

7 1/2" x 9 3/4"

 

0148


La Lanterne Magique

Jean-Francois Bosio(1764-1827)

Hand-colored stiple engraving

France

1804

19 1/4" x 14"

 

1142


Joueur d'Orgue. Lanterne magique piece curieuse a voir

Carlo Vernet

Lithograph

France

c. 1820

8" x 11"

 

0165


Anon

Hand-colored etching & acquatint

America

c. 1840

3" x 3 1/2"

 

0174







Paul Pry's Magic Lantern

William Heath(aka Paul Pry)

Colored wood engraving

England

c. 1840

2 1/2" x 3 1/2"

 

2440


La Lanterne Magique

Gavarni

Lithograph

France

c. 1850

8 1/2" x 11"

 

0184


La Lanterne Magique Républicaine Montrée à Sir Georges dandin et à Monsieur Pit,son féald Ministre,

Dupais

Engraving

France

c. 1860

7 3/8" x 5 1/8"

 

This is a 19th. century version of a print first published in 1794.

 

0189


Draner

Colored lithograph

France

1862

8" x 11 1/2"

 

 

0228


The Magic Lantern

Anon

Colored wood engraving

England

1866

4" x 6 3/4"

 

Cover from The Magic Lantern, How To Buy and How To Use It and How To Raise A Ghost by A Mere Phantom, London(B203).

 

0211


Lanterna Magica Prussiana Per Divertire I Fedeli

Anon

Colored lithograph

Italy

1881

20 1/2" x 13"

 

Inside fold out illustration from the Dec. 11,1881 issue of Le Perroquet published in Bologne.

 

0215

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