Arcade with Serpents and Fireworks
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1780
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Magic lantern slide, optical toy. On black field, semicircular arcade with straight returns, crowned with pyramidal decorations in white, pink, and green. Above, star in white with white and open pierced radiations. Receding rows of hedge, in green with pink flowers. Before the arcade, elabroate fireworks, a pyramid, and two serpents with rays of light radiating from their mouths.
place: label: made in
content: Savoy, France
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Museum purchase through gift of Mary Hearn Greims and George A. Hearn and from the Misses Hewitt Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1937-18-4
objectType: label: Type
content: toys & games
label: Object Name
content: Lantern slide
label: Type
content: Lantern slide
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Cut paper on wood frame
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 44.9 × 50 cm (17 11/16 × 19 11/16 in.)