24 slides in wooden mounts : hand-colored ; 10 x 18 cm + box 13 x 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Videos
Notes:
The slides are slip (or slipping) slides, each containing two panes of images on glass, from which movement or a transformation can be expressed by sliding one of the panes back or forth.
Contents:
[1] Man approaching a grocer's store -- [2] Pot of beer, best London porter -- [3] Balloon frame embossed “Newton, 3 Fleet street, London” -- [4] Chimney sweep -- [5] Sweep & maid -- [6] Beggar with a hat -- [7] Juggler in fancy costume -- [8] Man in red coat reading by candlelight -- [9] Bottled porter -- [10] Man in stockade with pagoda in background -- [11] Dog with tale of woe -- [12] Two soldiers of varying size -- [13] Sailor & his vat of preserved meat -- [14] Sitting monkey watching a cat in a stockade -- [15] Soldier smoking a pipe -- [16] Man charged by a bull -- [17] Acrobat on conehead hat -- [18] Woman beating a boy -- [19] (damaged) -- [20] A real native. Seated woman shucking oysters -- [21] Boy dropping a jam jar -- [22] Sailor in profile -- [23] Barefoot man with axe, chopping off his foot -- [24] Jack (sailor) in a box.
Form/Genre:
Lantern slides. | Metamorphic pictures. | Recreations -- Great Britain.