Rising Sun
Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Magic lantern slide, optical toy. On black field, white disk at center, surrounded by ring of pierced stars. Radiating toward circumference of the pattern are thirty-two white rays, alternating with thirty-two pierced clear rays. White rays are tinged with pink at their notched extremities.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of Mary Hearn Greims and George A. Hearn and from the Misses Hewitt Fund
- ca. 1780
- Accession Number
- 1937-18-22
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- toys & games
- Object Name
- Lantern slide
- Type
- Lantern slide
- Medium
- Cut paper on wood frame
- Dimensions
- H x W: 44.7 × 49.8 cm (17 5/8 × 19 5/8 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_1937-18-22
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq41a28d593-3e25-446d-947a-73ea60f4b8bf
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