Charles Nicholas Cochin after J. Lajoue

Engraving

France

c. 1750

12" x 14 1/2"

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

Charles Nicholas Cochin after J. Lajoue

Engraving

France

c. 1750

12" x 14 1/2"

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.

1351

Paul Sandby (1725-1809)

Etching

Great Britain

1753

6 1/2" x 8 3/4"

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

Jean Baptiste Maria Pierre

Engraving

France

1757

14" x 10 3/8"

0119

Anonymous

Engraving

The Netherlands

c. 1760

Cards: 2 1/2" x 2", sheet: 8 1/4" x 6 1/4"box: 3" x 4" x 2 1/4"

A game, in the original box ,with 60 engraved images, 60 prize cards, and 60 not winning cards. One of the illustrated image is a man carrying a magic lantern.

3881

Anonymous

Hand-colored etching

Germany

c. 1760

6 1/4" x 7 3/4"

A translation of the text:

A Shadow Story

Look first of all at what happens!

This was the greatest hero

In the whole world in his times

That knew what devotion!

4180

Anonymous

Engraving

France

1764

5 3/4" x 4 1/4"

A page from Lecons De Physique Experimentale(B264), by l'Abbe Jean Antoine Nolette,Paris.

0118

Anonymous

Engraving

Germany

1764

7" x 8"

A page from P. Bertholdo Hauser's Elementa Philosophiae ad Rationis et Experientia (B538).

4084

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

Engraving

France

1765

19" x 13 3/4"

0122

Anonymous

Watercolor on board after Schenau painting.

France

19th c.

3" x 2 1/4"

3735

Le Roy

Copper engraving

Continental

1767

7" x 5 1/2"

0121

Anonymous

Etching

France

1769 (19th. c. impression)

5" x 5 3/4"

0123

Anonymous

Wood engraving

Germany

1769

Image: 2" x 2 1/2", page: 6" x 3 1/2"

Frontispiece of book(no longer attached to book).

1032

Charles-Nicolas Cochin(1715-1790)

Engraving

France

c.1770

7" x 11"

0124

Charles-Nicholas Cochin

Engraving

France

c. 1770

9 1/2" x 7 3/8"

0125

Anonymous

Engraving

France

c. 1770

2 1/2" x 1 3/4"

A lotto game with fifty cards, one of which is a man with a magic lantern.

0141

Anonymous

Hand-colored etchings

The Netherlands

c. 1800

2 3/4" x 1 1/2"

A lotto game in original box with fifty cards,including a man with a magic lantern and a man with a peepshow.

1273

J.R. Schellenberg

Copper engraving

Germany

c. 1770

2 1/2” x 4”

This print depicts children projecting the silhouetted face of Johann Cas- par Lavater, the Swiss philosopher and writer famous for his published works on physiognomy.

4345

Anonymous

Engraving

Germany

1773

2" x 2 1/2"

0126

Anonymous

Engraving

France

1775

18 1/2" x 26"

A print of a board games illustrating a large number of cries of Paris first published by Crépy in 1775. It includes an image of a traveling showman with a magic lantern.

P. Lajoun after J.M. Moreau

Copper engraving

France

1776

Detai: 2 3/4" x 2", page:4 1/4" x 7"

This small engraving is one of six engravings contained in a three volume song collection entitled Les a propos de Societe(B301) .

0128

Anonymous

Copper engraving

Vienna, Austria

1776

3 3/4" x 5"

From: Der Schauplatz der Natur und der Künste in vier Sprachen.

0129

John Dixon

Mezzotint

Great Britain

1776

21 1/2" x 24 1/4"

This image, originally printed in 1774, represents a pro-British look at the forthcoming American Revolution. Allegorical figures representing England, Ireland, and Scotland, joined by a Native American, watch as father time projects, with a magic lantern, a figure representing King George III leading his followers toward a glorious victory.

4279

Carl Guttenberg

Copper Engraving

Germany

1778

14" x 17"

A reinterpretation of John Dixon's The Oracle. In Guttenberg's version Father Time explaining the success of the American Revolution to four figures viewing the tea-tax image projected by a magic lantern. At the center of the print is a pot on a bed of burning tea tax stamps being fanned by a rooster (France). At the left British soldiers retreat as a serpent (America) springs from the tea pot after them. To the right the cap of liberty flies out of the tea pot into the outstretched hand of America (represented by a female Native American with feather headdress) who leads the victorious revolutionaries.

0130

C. Huet

Engraving

France

c. 1780

5 3/4" x 8 1/4"

Engraved by J. Guelard. Part of a set of twelve engravings with monkeys in various human poses entitled Sin Gerie ou differentes Actions De Lavie Humaine Representees par des Singes.  This copy includes an owner's stamp belonging to Lenormand du Coudray(1712-1789) and dated 15 August 1782.

0149

Anonymous

Engraving

France

c. 1780

4 1/4" x 6 1/2"

A print showing a child projecting a "hidden image" of the royal family which can only be seen when the print is backlit.

4119

Giovanni Volpato after Francesco Magiotto

Engraving

Italy

c. 1780

7 3/4" x 11 3/4"

0133

F. Kobell

Engraving

Germany

c. 1780

four prints on page, each 2 5/8" x 2 3/8"

0134

J. Philipp Haid

Etching

Germany

c. 1780

5 1/2" x 6 5/8"

0135

Anonymous

Etching

Great Britain

c. 1780

3" x 4"

1523

Anonymous

Hand-colored engraving

France

c. 1780

20" x 25"

An engraving that appears to be a collection of 40 panoramic images in four rows including a  traveling lantern showman with his family.

1448

Anonymous

Engraving

Great Britain

1782

Image: 3 1/2" x 2 1/2", page: 17" x 13 1/2"

Sold by carrington Bowles, London this piece has a standard border of images including a Magic Lanthorn. It was published in 1782 and the writings on friendship signed by Motley Thompson were done in 1785.

1449

Anonymous

Copper Engraving

The Netherlands

1782

8" x 4 3/4"

Frontispiece from Lanterne Magique of Toverlantaern(B104). A political cartoon showing the projected figure of R.M. van Goens of Utrecht as a pancake baker.

0136

Anonymous

Etching

Great Britain

1782

3 3/8" x 2 1/8"

A page from Imirce ou La Fille De La Nature, London, 1782(B 404). An interesting image showing a lantern show in a privae home with a projected image of a king while the sole couple in the back are concentrating on each other rather than the screen.

1146

K. F Bendorp

Etching

The Netherlands

1782

Image: 3 1/2" x 2 1/2", page: 7 1/4" x 4 3/4"

A page from Vaderlandsche Kermisvreugd, vertoond in acht kunstplaaten, 1782(B 403).

0137

Anonymous

Etching

The Netherlands

1783

8" x 4 1/2"

The frontispiece from Lanterne Magique of Toverlantaern(B590).

4648

Thomas Rowlandson

Hand colored engraving

Great Britain

1783

9 1/2" x 13"

Published Dec. 29,1783 by W. Humphrey, 227 Strand, London.

Ten scenes, presented as slides for a magic lantern, satirizing the coalition government of Charles James North and Lord Fox.

0138

Anonymous

Acguatint

The Netherlands

1787

4 1/2" x 2 1/2"

Frontispiece from the book La Lanterne Magique, suivie du petit chansonnier francois(B589).

4647

Anonymous

Engraving

Great Britain

1787

8" x 6 1/2"

A page from Rational Recreation(B237) by William Hooper. London.

0127

T. Cornell

Engraving

Great Britain

1788

6" x 6 1/2"

0139

Labroufse

Hand-colored engraving

France

1788

6 1/4" x 4 1/2"

0153

Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki(1726=1801)

Etching

Germany

c. 1790

3 1/4" x 2"

One of a set of twelve etchings.

0142

Anonymous

Engraving

Germany

1790

Images: 6 1/2" x 4", 4 " x 6 1/2"

Two illustrations from Karl von Eckartshausen's book: Aufschlüsse zur Magie aus geprüften Erfahrungen über verborgene philosophische Wissenschaften und seltne Geheimnisse der Natur (B545). The first images shows two men out for a walk and in front of them there is a figure mysteriously projected on a wall, the second image shows the construction of a lantern that Eckartshausen could hide under his coat and then light with his cane and startle his friend with the projected image. Quite a wonderful trick.

4112/4113

Anonymous

Wood engraving

France

1790

6" x 4"

Frontispiece La Lanterne Magigue Patriotique ou Le Coup de Grace de L'aristocrate by Antoine Dorfeuille. Paris

0143

James Gillray

Hand-colored engraving

Great Britain

1792

12 1/2" X 15 1/2"

1202

Anonymous

Engraving

America

1792

10 1/2" x 8 1/4"

A plate from The Encyclopedia of Arts & Sciences.

2804

Anonymous

Engraving

Germany

1795

6" x 7 3/4"

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

0144

Anonymous

Engraving

Germany

1795

8" x 13"

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

0145

Anonymous

Engraving

Germany

1795

6" x 7 3/4 "

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

1376

Anonymous

Engraving

Germany

1796

Image:3" x 3", page: 11 1/2" x 7"

One plate from Die Naturliche Magic(B235) by Johann Christian Begleb,Berlin.

1377

George Moutard Woodward

Hand-colored etchinging

Great Britain

1797

9 3/4" x 7 1/2

0148

Anonymous

Engraving

Germany

1799

7" x 4"

Frontispiece from Die(Zauberlanterne)Schlufstuck by G.F. Rebmann(B465). Published in Leipzig in 1799.

1751

Anonymous

Copper plate engraving

Germany

1799

7" x 4"

Pages from Die(Zauberlanterne)Schlufstuck by G.F. Rebmann(B465). Published in Leipzig in 1799.

1764