4 Magic Lantern Slides: Galley Ships In Ancient Sea Battle Salamis & Thermopylae
Item History & Price
Four Wood-Mount Magic Lantern Glass Projection Slides, 19th Century
Item description is keyed to the numbered images above.
The numbers and the word WATERMARK do not appear on the actual slide or slides.
Image 5:The wood-mounts measure 7” x 4”. The glass and the wood are without crack on all four slides.
Image 6:The edges of the four wood mounts.
Image 1:Four magic-lantern slides relating to ancient Greece. The first is labeled “Ancient Greece, No. ...Battle of Salamis.” The Battle of Salamis took place between the Greeks and the invading Persians in 480 BC in the strait between Greece and the island of Salamis. It was a Greek victory. (The artwork on this particular slide puts me in mind of the sea battle in Ben Hur.)
Image 2:Labeled: “Dissolving Views. - Reunion at House of Aspasia. Grolleau.” Aspasia was the consort of the Greek statesman Pericles, circa 450 BC. Her house became a center of the arts and learning in Athens, visited by, among others, Socrates.
Image 3:Labeled: “Ancient Greece. Leonidas at Thermopylae.” 480 BC. The Spartans defending the pass against the invading Persians and going down in history for their valor against overwhelming odds. (cf. 300 Spartans.) The artwork on the slide is based on the epic 1814 painting by Jacques-Louis David, which hangs in the Louvre.
Image 4:Labeled: “Ancient Greece, No. Palmy Days of Greece.”
This is one of 30 lantern-slide auctions ending within 30 minutes of each other. We combine shipping on multiple lots.
Item description is keyed to the numbered images above.
The numbers and the word WATERMARK do not appear on the actual slide or slides.
Image 5:The wood-mounts measure 7” x 4”. The glass and the wood are without crack on all four slides.
Image 6:The edges of the four wood mounts.
Image 1:Four magic-lantern slides relating to ancient Greece. The first is labeled “Ancient Greece, No. ...Battle of Salamis.” The Battle of Salamis took place between the Greeks and the invading Persians in 480 BC in the strait between Greece and the island of Salamis. It was a Greek victory. (The artwork on this particular slide puts me in mind of the sea battle in Ben Hur.)
Image 2:Labeled: “Dissolving Views. - Reunion at House of Aspasia. Grolleau.” Aspasia was the consort of the Greek statesman Pericles, circa 450 BC. Her house became a center of the arts and learning in Athens, visited by, among others, Socrates.
Image 3:Labeled: “Ancient Greece. Leonidas at Thermopylae.” 480 BC. The Spartans defending the pass against the invading Persians and going down in history for their valor against overwhelming odds. (cf. 300 Spartans.) The artwork on the slide is based on the epic 1814 painting by Jacques-Louis David, which hangs in the Louvre.
Image 4:Labeled: “Ancient Greece, No. Palmy Days of Greece.”
This is one of 30 lantern-slide auctions ending within 30 minutes of each other. We combine shipping on multiple lots.
