Magic Lantern Slide: Ignorance thrust into Hell
The Pilgrim’s Progress was written in 1678 and was very popular in Victorian England for its Christian message. The slides were shown while a narrator told the story, often using a printed script. This version comprises both hand-drawn images of scenes from the story, and hand-coloured photographs of costumed actors.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 312/1977/64
- Collection Class
- Social and industrial history
- Material
- glasspaperphotographic emulsionpigment
- Common Name
- Magic Lantern Slide: Ignorance thrust into Hell
- Simple Name
- slide
- Inscription Transcription
- printed title on label on top edge; printed 'Pilgrim's Progress / (LIFE)', '40' on labels on mount
- Period Classification
- Victorian (1837-1901)
- Production Town
- London
- Production Country
- United Kingdom
- Production Person Surname
- York & Son
- Production Year High
- 1888
