Palace Garden with Fireworks
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Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Magic lantern slide, optical toy. On black field, two palaces at right and left in background. In foreground, fountain surrounded by embroidered parterre, with semicircular hedge and four obelisks. In center of sheet, radiating wheel and whorled wheel above. Translucent portions in white, blue, green, red, and yellow.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of Mary Hearn Greims and George A. Hearn and from the Misses Hewitt Fund
- ca. 1780
- Accession Number
- 1937-18-9
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- toys & games
- Object Name
- Lantern slide
- Type
- Lantern slide
- Medium
- Cut paper on wood frame
- Dimensions
- H x W: 44.8 × 50 cm (17 5/8 × 19 11/16 in.)
- made in
- Savoy, France
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1937-18-9
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4d4fbd3b7-fa90-4312-8637-99e253d40efd
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