Magic lantern shows
Images from the collections
Images referencing Magic lantern shows
10 images from works
Works from the collections
10 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- 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: 816028i- 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.
Q559929Date: [1720?]Reference: 812283i
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Children watching a magic lantern show. Coloured lithograph.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899]Reference: 12082i
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Peking, Pechili province, China: a magic lantern show. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
John ThomsonDate: 1869Reference: 17424i