Magic Lantern Slide: The Donkey and the Mill: The hair gives way, and down he comes
This slide is part of the story of The Donkey and the Mill, which was an entertaining moral tale. Each of the twelve slides contains a different part of the story. In this image the donkey’s tail hair has snapped and the peasant has fallen to the ground, while the donkey is still tied to the windmill sail.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 314/1977/37
- Collection Class
- Social and industrial history
- Material
- glasspaperphotographic emulsion
- Common Name
- Magic Lantern Slide: The Donkey and the Mill: The hair gives way, and down he comes
- Simple Name
- slide
- Period Classification
- Victorian (1837-1901)
- Production Town
- London
- Production Country
- United Kingdom
- Production Person Surname
- York & Son
- Production Year High
- 1888
