Antique Magic Lantern Slip Slide, My Own Blue Bell(e) birch bark Another excellent

Another excellent

with signature to the right

20" x 12 3/8"

I just picked up six of these brilliantly colorful pattern paintings on lightweight cardboard and think they are just gorgeous

converging with the distinctly British obsession with rendering wildflowers

Antique Magic Lantern Slip Slide, My Own Blue Bell(e) birch bark Another excellentI think magic lantern "slip" slides are really fun a very simple early mechanical means of creating a changing image, with the black painted ground of the slide concealing (more of less) a second image that is revealed when the top pane of glass is pulled to the right. And I really love the bright blue bell in this one, which slides out to reveal a pretty blue belle! Closed: 7 3 8" x 4" x 7 16". Good condition, with a bit of paint loss, as documented,