A drawing by Gemma Frisius showing how he used a pinhole within a darkened room to study the solar eclipse of 1544
1545 (published)
Engraving
Private collection of Jack and Beverly Wilgus
LL/86578
1 of 25
A drawing by Gemma Frisius showing how he used a pinhole within a darkened room to study the solar eclipse of 1544
1545 (published)
Engraving
Private collection
LL/31674
2 of 25
The Miraculous Mirror
1850 (ca)
Steel plate engraving
14.3 x 20.5 cm (image) 21 x 29 cm (overall)
George Eastman Museum
Museum accession, 1972.0079.0088
LL/69947
3 of 25
Title page to Treatise on optics by Sir David Brewster (1853)
1853
Book illustration
Internet - Original source ill-defined
LL/79215
4 of 25
Famille Savoyarde partant pour faire son tour de France
1806
Book illustration
Archives of Modern Conflict OR National Gallery of Canada
LL/9884 [Further details available]
5 of 25
Famille Savoyarde partant pour faire son tour de France
1806
Book illustration
NYPL - New York Public Library
BAP (Blanchard, P. Voyageur de la jeunesse dans les quatre parties du monde)
LL/94249 [Further details available]
6 of 25
Famille Savoyarde partant pour faire son tour de France
1812
Internet - Original source ill-defined
www.antique-prints.de, P018425, 30 October 2019
LL/94248 [Further details available]
7 of 25
The Peep-Show Porter
1890 (ca)
Book illustration
Private collection of Jack and Beverly Wilgus
LL/63039 [Further details available]
8 of 25
Fig. 205 - The organ-player
n.d.
Book illustration
9 3/8 × 7 1/16 in. (23.8 × 18 cm) (sheet)
Internet - Original source ill-defined
Source requested
LL/94312 [Further details available]
9 of 25
A Man selling Toy Windmills; and a Woman playing the Barrel Organ in a street as she carries a Magic Lantern on her back
n.d.
Oil on canvas
38.4 x 30.5 cm (15.1 x 12 in.)
Internet - Original source ill-defined
Current location requested
LL/94314
10 of 25
A Man selling Toy Windmills; and a Woman playing the Barrel Organ in a street as she carries a Magic Lantern on her back
n.d.
Oil on canvas
38.4 x 30.5 cm (15.1 x 12 in.)
Internet - Original source ill-defined
Current location requested
LL/94313
11 of 25
[An itinerant lanternist]
n.d.
Magazine illustration
Internet - Original source ill-defined
Full source details requested
LL/94315 [Further details available]
12 of 25
[Children lining up to view a peep show]
1791
Engraving
Archive Farms
LL/90121 [Further details available]
13 of 25
Magic Lantern Peep Show
1877
OIl on canvas
51 x 61 cm
Bonhams - London
LL/54474
14 of 25
La Lanterna Magica
1815
Etching
Princeton University Library
Graphic Arts Theater Collection
LL/54477
15 of 25
The Magic Lantern [La Lanterna Magica]
1808
Illustration
Bearnes, Hampton and Littlewood
The Philip Banham Collection of optical toys and stereoscopy, 6 March 2019, Lot: 28
LL/87358
16 of 25
The Camera Obscura (detail)
1764
OIl on canvas, detail
National Gallery of Art
LL/54475
17 of 25
1777
Book illustration, detail
Private collection of Jack and Beverly Wilgus
LL/54403 [Further details available]
18 of 25
The Laterna Magica
1760
Watercolor and body color over pen and ink
37 x 53.6 cm
British Museum
LL/54395
19 of 25
[Magic lantern in use]
1671
Book page, detail
San Diego State University, Library, Special Collections
Homer and Betty Peabody Magic Lantern Collection, QC353.K57
LL/54397 [Further details available]
20 of 25
[Spectators viewing the diorama of the Port of Brest (1823) or the Port of Santa María (1824)]
1824 (ca)
Lithograph, hand-coloured
16.3 × 26.6 cm (6 7/16 × 10 1/2 ins) (image) 25.6 × 34 cm (10 1/16 × 13 3/8 ins) (paper)
George Eastman Museum
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company, ex-collection Gabriel Cromer, 1982.0929.0002
LL/74510
21 of 25
[A peepshow]
1830 (ca)
Illustration
Private collection of Jack and Beverly Wilgus
LL/84743 [Further details available]
22 of 25
The Five Senses. - No. I. Seeing.
1854
Magazine illustration
Private collection of Carlos Gabriel Vertanessian
LL/84742 [Further details available]
23 of 25
"Exhibition.- At Mr. Lockwood's Room, 411 Broadway" [New York City] "Daguerre's Real and New Diorama from Paris"
1840, 12 October
Newspaper advert
Archive Farms
LL/90122 [Further details available]
24 of 25
Daguerre's Diorama
1822-1877
Wood engraving
3 1/8 x 5 in.
Archive Farms
The Patrick Montgomery Collection, Object No. 2009.289
LL/119633
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