Lantern and Diorama
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Lantern and Diorama

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Lantern and Diorama
Five newspapers each with an advertisement or review of a lantern or diorama show (5)
Literature
Hecht (1993), Pre-Cinema History. An Encyclopaedia and Annotated Bibliography, various
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Lot Essay

These comprise complete issues of:
The Morning Post, 19 April 1784. Two advertisements: Sir Ashton Lever's Holophusocon...'to which is added a large Room of Transparent Drawings'; Eidophusikon...'propose to introduce...admired Scene of the Storm and Shipwreck'.
The Morning Post, 25 April 1795. Two advertisements: Eidophusikon...A Storm over London; Eidouranion: or Large Transparent Orrery.
The Diary; or Woodfall's Register, 30 August 1791. Advertisement: Panorama, Painted by R. Barker, Patentee for this Invention...Leicester Square'.
The Morning Chronicle, 3 January 1797. Advertisement: The Magic Lantern...J. Scott has prepared an extensive assortment. They are complete in boxes, each Lantern with twelve glass slides, on which are finely painted about sixty grotesque figures...417 Strand.
The Times, 4 October 1823. Review of the Diorama

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