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Identification and Creation

Object Number
R9298
People
Jean Ouvrier, French (1725 - 1784)
After Johann Eleazar Schenau, German (Gross-Schenau, Saxony 1737 - 1806)
Title
The Magic Lantern
Other Titles
Original Language Title: La lanterne magique
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
18th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/241157

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Image: 43.3 × 32.9 cm (17 1/16 × 12 15/16 in.)
Plate: 48.5 × 34.8 cm (19 1/8 × 13 11/16 in.)
Sheet: 61.5 × 46 cm (24 3/16 × 18 1/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
John Witt Randall, bequest; to Belinda Lull Randall, his sister, gift; to Harvard University, 1892

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
Andresen 1; LeBlanc 14

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall
Object Number
R9298
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Publication History

  • Joseph Monteyne, From Still Life to the Screen: Print Culture, Display, and the Materiality of the Image in Eighteenth-century London, Yale University Press (New Haven, 2013), repr. as fig. 145 on p. 206 [not Harvard impression, related bibliography]
  • Anke Fröhlich-Schauseil, Schenau (1737-1806): Monografie und Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde, Handzeichnungen und Druckgrafik von Johann Eleazar Zeißig, gen. Schenau, Michael Imhof Verlag (Dresden, 2018), pp. 535-536, no. GA 185 [not Harvard impression]

Verification Level

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