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Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- 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.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of Mary Hearn Greims and George A. Hearn and from the Misses Hewitt Fund
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Date
- ca. 1780
- Accession Number
- 1937-18-25
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- toys & games
- Object Name
- Lantern slide
- Type
- Lantern slide
- Medium
- Cut paper on wood frame
- Dimensions
- H x W: 44.7 × 50 cm (17 5/8 × 19 11/16 in.)
- made in
- Savoy, France
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Record ID
- chndm_1937-18-25
- Usage
- CC0
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