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Lantern Slide, Universal Wheel
This is a Lantern slide. It is dated ca. 1780 and we acquired it in 1937. Its medium is cut paper on wood frame. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
It is credited Museum purchase through gift of Mary Hearn Greims and George A. Hearn and from the Misses Hewitt Fund.
- Model AD-65 Radio Radio
- bakelite (tm), steel, textile materials.
- Gift of George R. Kravis II.
- 2018-22-40-a,b
Its dimensions are
H x W: 44.6 × 48 cm (17 9/16 × 18 7/8 in.)
It is inscribed
Inscribed on label, verso: We see here a universal wheel that always turns -- quick, slow, but always with the same movement -- opposed, wavy, -- and looks like a beautiful rose of diamonds.
Cite this object as
Lantern Slide, Universal Wheel; Italy; cut paper on wood frame; H x W: 44.6 × 48 cm (17 9/16 × 18 7/8 in.); Museum purchase through gift of Mary Hearn Greims and George A. Hearn and from the Misses Hewitt Fund; 1937-18-26
