10 results filtered with: Magic lantern shows
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The English coffee house in Amsterdam, with people trading shares; with vignettes showing the rise and fall of the share price boom of 1720. Etching, ca. 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 812076iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Pictures
Investors optimistically seek the protection of Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, in the Dutch financial crisis of 1720, while others are irreversably ruined. Etching, 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 816028iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Pictures
A chariot driven by Folly and pulled by speculative trading companies displays a figure of Fortune corrupting honest trade. Etching by B. Picart, ca. 1720.
Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733.Date: [1720?]Reference: 812283iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.
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Children watching a magic lantern show. Coloured lithograph.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899]Reference: 12082iPart of: Spooner's protean views
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Peking, Pechili province, China: a magic lantern show. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.Date: 1869Reference: 17424i
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A man with a magic lantern (slide projector) on his back is walking along a country path. Lithograph by Gavarni, 1854.
Gavarni, Paul, 1804-1866.Date: [1854]Reference: 578798i
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Peking, Pechili province, China: a magic lantern show. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.Date: 1869Reference: 19716i
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An itinerant young man is presenting a "boîte à curiosité" or magic lantern show to children and adults who are gathering around to look. Engraving by Noel Le Mire, 1752, after R. Brakenburg.
Brakenburg, Richard, 1650-1702.Date: [1752]Reference: 32448i
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A Chinese magic lantern show. Coloured stippled engraving by J. Dadley after Pu-Qua.
Pu-Qúa.Date: May 4, 1799Reference: 581032i
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A man is projecting on to a sheet the images of a magic lantern to three children. Etching by J. Ouvrier after J.E. Schenau, 17--.
Schenau, Johann Eleazar, 1737-1806.Date: [between 1700 and 1799]Reference: 573827i