The Magic Lantern: Spooner's Protean View No. 5
A hand-colored lithograph shows a mustached lecturer in a dark coat holding a magic lantern while a crowd of children and a woman in a long purple gown look on. Figures in pastel dresses and trousers fill the white-curtained room, set on a mounted gray card with a printed label below.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- ca. 1838
- Medium
- Lithograph, brush and watercolor on paper, mounted
- Source
- Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)
- Size
- 2636 × 3246 px
Public domain · Smithsonian (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum) releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1843).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)
Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum