The Magic Lantern
printmaking
10 x 8 in.
This piece imagines a magic lantern show, a form of entertainment that was wildly popular before cinema. Magic lantern shows featured pictures on glass slides, often about travel and exotic lands, with live narration and music. Here the showman projects images about ancient Egypt to an audience, including one with a Theda Bara-like vamp as Cleopatra. The print combines multiple techniques: etching, aquatint, soft ground, dry point, and marbelizing in the lantern smoke.
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