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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
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- [1854]
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- 578798i
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Credit: A man with a magic lantern (slide projector) on his back is walking along a country path. Lithograph by Gavarni, 1854. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark
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Publication/Creation
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1854]
Physical description
1 print : lithograph ; image 28.1 x 21.7 cm
Contributors
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La lanterne magique ; Gavarni
References note
Jean Adhémar and Jacques Lethève, Inventaire du fonds français après 1800, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, tome VIII, Paris 1954, p. 561, no. 343 ("La lanterne magique, le montreur dans un paysage d'orage pour les Artistes anciens et modernes, 1854 [A. B. 1673, deux états. …")
David Robinson, The lantern image: iconography of the magic lantern, 1420-1880, 1993, p. 56, no. 181
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Wellcome Library no. 578798i
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- French
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