Magic Lantern Slide: John Ploughman’s Pictures - Burn a candle at both ends, and it will soon be gone
This slide is from a talk called ‘John Ploughman's pictures: or, more of his plain talk for plain people’, written by a Baptist preacher called Charles Spurgeon. The images form a comic tale with a moral message, and are all copied from a book written by Spurgeon. The slide is part of a collection given to the museum in 1981.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 101/1981/13
- Collection Class
- Social and industrial history
- Material
- glasspaperphotographic emulsionpigment
- Common Name
- Magic Lantern Slide: John Ploughman’s Pictures - Burn a candle at both ends, and it will soon be gone
- Simple Name
- slide
- Inscription Transcription
- handwritten '3' on corner label
- Period Classification
- Victorian (1837-1901)
- Production Town
- London
- Production Country
- United Kingdom
- Production Person Surname
- W.C. Hughes
- Production Year Low
- 1880
- Production Year High
- 1883
