Deac-Savoyards - Bildinformationen

• Pierre Leloup, La lanterne (Le Mans, c1760)

• Anonymous, A la piece curieuse (Orleans, c1785)

• Anonymous, A la pièce curieuse (Amiens, c1790)

• Anonymous, La Magique (Lille, 1815)

• Anne Claude Philippe, Comte de Caylus, La lanterne magique, from Les Cris de Paris, 1737 - 1746, after a drawing by Edmé Bouchardon.

• Anne Claude Philippe, Comte de Caylus, l’orgue de Barbarie, from Les Cris de Paris, 1737 - 1746, after a drawing by Edmé Bouchardon.

• Matthäus Deisch, the lanternist from Die Herumrufe, including the tune of the lanternist’s cry.

• Jean Marie Delattre, Les Plaisirs du Jour, 1769, a realistic engraving of the hardships of life on the road.

• Attributed to Jan de Ridder, De Tover Lantaren, 1720 is part of a series of three prints each showing a lantern exhibition in a public space and three travelling lanternists.

• A slide sold by John Scott in London illustrating the first five chapters of Genesis, including the stories of the Creation and Adam and Eve. Scott traded from 417 Strand between 1788 and 1839.

• : A John Scott slide depicting the story of Noah and the Ark, a more sophisticated painting than the Savoyard slide above, as well as surviving with significantly less wear-and-tear.

• Jean Ouvrier, La Lanterne Magique, engraving after Johann Eleazar Schenau, Paris, 1765.

• Johann Rudolf Schellenberg, copper engraving showing a monster being projected to a roomful of children, c1790. The Swiss artist and entomologist Schellenberg is better known for his many plates of insects.

• Daniel Chodowiecki, der Savoÿarde, copper engraving from a calendar, 1780 (April), showing a nude woman projected to an enthusiastic audience of pointing men. (Private Collection)

• The magic lantern offered for sale by Marc-Mitouflet Thomin in his Traité d’Optique Mechanique (Paris, 1749), Pl. 4, Fig. 5.

• Johann Conrad Gütle used the depiction of a travelling lanternist’s show as the setting for his mechanical display cabinet for showing a series of engravings.

• Anonymous, Actieuse Nacht-Wind-Zanger met zyn Tover Slons, from the portfolio Het groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid, 1720.

•   H. G. Hine, The Magic Lantern, engraving published in the Illustrated London News, 25 December, 1858. The Christmas day home lantern show given by Father is memorialized in this print, evoking the impending end of the travelling lanternist.