Slide set: The peasant, his son, and ass: a fable showing the folly of trying to please everyone (story: York & Son, 7 slides, in/before 1889)

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Slide 1

The ass which the peasant has decided to sell

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Catalogue entries (7)

c.1889

Catalogue and price list of magic lantern slides and photographic transparencies (London: J. Brandon Medland, c.1889), A 24

c.1889

Catalogue and price list of magic lantern slides and photographic transparencies (London: J. Brandon Medland, c.1889), B 30

1891

Complete catalogue of lantern slides, dissolving views, magic lanterns etc. (London: UK Band of Hope Union, 1891), A 30

1891

Complete catalogue of lantern slides, dissolving views, magic lanterns etc. (London: UK Band of Hope Union, 1891), B 67

1892

Illustrated catalogue of magic, optical and dissolving view lanterns, lime-light apparatus, etc.: season 1892-93 (London: Wrench & Son, 1892), 197

1894

Wood's catalogue of slides, optical lanterns, and dissolving views apparatus: forty-eighth issue (London: E.G. Wood, 1894), 124

c.1913

Lijst van lantaarnplaatjes (Nijmegen and Amsterdam: Ivens & Co., c.1913), 67

Other reference

1888

Walter D. Welford and Henry Sturmey (compilers), The 'indispensable handbook' to the optical lantern: a complete cyclopaedia on the subject of optical lanterns, slides, and accessory apparatus (London: Iliffe & Son, 1888), 299

“A man and boy drive the ass to market, the boy rides and the men grumble, then the old man rides and women jeer. Finally, they carry the ass and manage to kill him.”

Lucerna ID 3002681

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 18 July 2016

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Slide set: The peasant, his son, and ass: a fable showing the folly of trying to please everyone (story: York & Son, 7 slides, in/before 1889)