Black and white lithograph of a man with a lantern on his back walking with a staff across a barren landscape under a stormy sky with distant chimneys.

The Magic Lantern

A lithograph in black tones shows a capped man trudging across a barren, rutted landscape, a lantern apparatus strapped to his back and a staff in his hand. Smoking chimneys and a heavy, stormy sky loom in the distance, with a lone bare tree at right.

Artist: Paul Gavarni
Date: 1854
Medium: Lithograph in black on cream China paper, laid down on ivory wove paper
Source: Art Institute of Chicago
Size: 1686 × 2399 px

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Public domain · Art Institute of Chicago releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1854).
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Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Harold Flesch in honor of her children and grandchildren

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