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Projectors

Optical device that projects an image or moving images onto a surface

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Images from the collections

Images referencing Projectors

4 images from works
  • Children watching a magic lantern show. Coloured lithograph.
  • An optical experiment using a giant lens to reflect sun-rays to create fire, with optical instruments scattered and fountains in a Baroque setting. Line engraving by C.N. Cochin the elder, 1737, after J. de La Jouë.
  • A lecturer (William Kitchiner?) about to address a lecture on optics with the aid of candles, a telescope and magic lantern to a seated audience, he is interrupted by a Kentish hop merchant. Coloured etching, 1809, after G.M. Woodward.
  • Children watching a magic lantern show. Coloured lithograph.

Works from the collections

5 works

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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: 812076i
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    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: 816028i
    • Pictures

    Children watching a magic lantern show. Coloured lithograph.

    | Date: [between 1800 and 1899] | Reference: 12082i
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    An optical experiment using a giant lens to reflect sun-rays to create fire, with optical instruments scattered and fountains in a Baroque setting. Line engraving by C.N. Cochin the elder, 1737, after J. de La Jouë.

    Jacques de Lajoue | Date: [1737] | Reference: 15959i
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    A lecturer (William Kitchiner?) about to address a lecture on optics with the aid of candles, a telescope and magic lantern to a seated audience, he is interrupted by a Kentish hop merchant. Coloured etching, 1809, after G.M. Woodward.

    George Murgatroyd Woodward | Date: [1809?] | Reference: 15968i

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Magic lantern shows

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