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Single Panorama Slipping Slide: Cave with Smugglers, by Newton, English?, c. 1880

Inventory Number 46747


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.46747

Item type
Object
Makers
Newton
Provenance
In wooden box marked in chalk: 'ASTRO ATY'.
Physical material
Wood
Glass
Paint
Dimensions
Height: 229mm Width: 103mm Depth: 12mm Weight: 159g
Inventory No
46747

Description

Wood-framed glass sliding-type lantern slide showing a cave from the inside, with an anchored ship outside on and two men cooking over an open fire. When the top slide is pushed halfway to the left edge and moved back across, seven men carrying various smuggled goods enter the cave.