Deac-19th century - Bildinformationen

• The opening page of the script for Timothy Toddle’s lantern show, c. 1842, where Toddle introduces himself and shows slides of Noah’s Ark and a Dancing Bear, interspersed with images of clowns. (Courtesy The Magic Lantern Society)

• John Scott slide of Robinson Crusoe, c. 1825. An artist’s colourman whose trade included hand-painted lantern slides, Scott traded from 417 Strand, London, between 1788 and 1839.

• John Scott slide of a hunting scene, c. 1825. Both this subject and Robinson Crusoe were also in the repertoire of Timothy Toddle.

• Faust meeting the Erdgeist in a staging sketch by Wolfgang von Goethe, c. 1819.

• Edward Palmer’s Improved Oxy-Hydrogen Microscope from his retail catalogue of 1840, page 61, clearly showing the separate supplies of hydrogen and oxygen to the limelight burner.

• A generic limelight burner.

• Typical valve connection for multiple-lantern dissolving view projections. These six-way valves would be connected to additional valves at the back of each lantern in a triunial. From Paul Ed. Liesegang, Die Projektions-Kunst (1909), p. 148, Fig. 75.

• Watkins and Hill dissolving view lantern pair, 1832, from their catalogue of the same year.

• Karl Friedrich Schinkel’s Der Brand zu Moskau, 1811-12, here in a surviving print, was the subject of his now lost major transparent painting show at Christmas, 1812.

• A section through the 1823 Diorama opened by Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre in London, showing the raised audience looking at one of the two transparent pictures exhibited.

• Handbill for the dissolving view show of Wilhelm Bahr in Gustrow in 1851. (Courtesy Stadtmuseum Güstrow)

• Obverse and reverse of a token from the Polytechnic Institution on Regent Street, London. Probably produced as a souvenir at a coining machine in the Great Hall, 1840.

• Obverse and reverse of a token from the Polytechnic Institution on Regent Street, London. Probably produced as a souvenir at a coining machine in the Great Hall, 1840.

• The projection room at the Polytechnic Institution, London, known internally as “the manipulating room,” in 1860.

• Most of the larger slide dealers issued a variety of specialist catalogues.

• The cover of Part 6 of Horne and Thornthwaite’s catalogue of scientific instruments, covering the magic lantern, its accessories and scientific slides.

• The memorial to Joseph Petzval at the University of Vienna. From J. M. Eder, Handbuch der Photographie, Band 1, Theil 1, 1905 (3rd edition), p. 224.

• Representation of the optical design of the Petzval Portrait Lens, from Rudolf Kingslake, A History of the Photographic Lens (New York, 1989), p. 36.

• Fourteen of the sixteen volumes of Stoddard’s Lectures, first printed as an eleven-volume set, with five supplementary volumes following.

• William P. F. Ferguson’s advertising brochure for his lantern lectures in central New York State, c. 1893.

• A section drawing of Lorenzo J. Marcy’s first patent for a new kind of magic lantern burner.

• An early Marcy sciopticon lantern, c. 1875.

• A particularly well-crafted and highly recommended sciopticon was the Pinakoskop of Ganz & Co in Zürich, notable for its quality insulation, finely adjustable burner, and extra-bright illumination. This model from c. 1885.

• An enlarging lantern sold by the firm of E. and H. T. Anthony & Co. in New York, essentially a magic lantern with a bellows to provide for adjusting the size of the photographic enlargement, from their 1895 catalogue, p. 84.

• Lantern for projecting Kromoskop colour images

•   The projecting Sphygmograph, or Polygraphe à projection, after Marey, at the Gratz Physiologischen Institut.

• T. W. Naylor’s 1843 suggestion of a projecting phenakistiscope, just a decade after Simon Stampfer’s and Joseph Plateau’s initial descriptions of the moving picture effect.

• Detail from Leopold Ludwig Döbler’s Austrian patent of 3 January 1847, showing his sketch of his projecting phenakistiscope.

• Modern projectors: a circular cassette in the Kodak Carousel projector

• Modern projectors: a linear cassette of the Leitz projector.