Optical Toy: "Mount Vesuvius" (Spooner's Protean Views)
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1838
name: label: Publisher
content: William Spooner, England, active 1830 – 1854
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: View through an open loggia across a body of water with mountains in the distance. When held to the light Vesuvius is seen erupting at night. Below, title and lengthy description; publisher's name below.
place: label: made in
content: London, England
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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: Gift of Hamill and Barker
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1961-105-15
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Lithograph, brush and watercolor on paper, mounted
label: Dimensions
content: 22.4 × 29.3 cm (8 13/16 × 11 9/16 in.)