Magic Lantern Slide: Beverley Misericord - Apes
This photographic slide by William Weaver Baker shows a misericord at Beverley Minster depicting a group of apes robbing a pedlar. In the image are eight apes passing around items from the pedlar’s bag. On the supports is an ape reaching to the central scene, and on the right is an ape sitting below a cat in a tree. The misericords at Beverley Minster are believed to have been carved by the Ripon School of Carvers in 1520.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 313/1977/508
- Collection Class
- Social and industrial history
- Material
- glasspaperphotographic emulsion
- Common Name
- Magic Lantern Slide: Beverley Misericord - Apes
- Simple Name
- slide
- Inscription Transcription
- handwritten 'MISERICORDE Beverley' on top edge; handwritten 'Beverley Misericord. Apes.' on mount
- Period Classification
- Edwardian (1901-1914); World War I (1914-1918); Inter War (1918-1939)
- Production Country
- United Kingdom
- Production Person Initials
- W. Weaver
- Production Person Surname
- Baker
