Slide set: The artist and the musician (story: Theobald & Co., 12 slides, in/before 1905)

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Descriptive data for this set (listed below slide images)

Slide 1**

Mr McDaub was busily engaged on a picture

Slide 2**

Closing his eyes he was soon lost in dreamland

Slide 3

In the adjoining room lived the celebrated musician, Signor Tempestuoso

Slide 4**

McDaub is suddenly awakened by what seemed to be a loud crash

Slide 5**

Mr McDaub is now full of dire displeasure

Slide 6**

The walls between the two rooms were but lath and plaster

Slide 7**

The squirt is applied to the cavity made in the wall

Slide 8

And now the hilarity of the artist is almost more than he can bear

Slide 9**

Meanwhile let us take a glance into the other room

Slide 10**

Vowing vengeance, he proceeds to attempt to make matters even

Slide 11**

He creeps cautiously upstairs and bursts suddenly in

Slide 12**

** there are alternative versions or views of this slide

Number of slides

Manufacturer

Theobald & Co., England

Other related organisation

in stock of Houghton's Ltd, 1905 (item ref. 111)

Main type of image

drawing / painting / print

Main usage of set

story

Date of first manufacture

unknown (latest possible 1905)

Reading or song

‘The artist and the musician’ in Readings in prose and verse

Related slide sets

see also The artist and the musician (story: W. Rider & Co., 12 slides, in/before 1898)

see also The hostile neighbours (recitation: York & Son, 12 slides, in/before 1888)

People appearing in slides

UNIDENTIFIED LIFE MODEL 01 (fl. 1890s-1900s) – slides 1, 4-8, 11-12

UNIDENTIFIED LIFE MODEL 03 (fl. 1890s-1900s) – slides 3, 9-12

Notes

The images are drawings based on the life model photos of the set Music versus art by W. Rider & Co.
The slide titles are based on the text of the reading; the slides themselves carried no titles.

Collections

12 slides known to exist in private collection

10 slides in Ilfracombe Museum Collection

Subject keywords

creative arts – painting and drawing
comedy / humour
creative arts – music

Lucerna ID 3005744

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 9 February 2020

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Slide set: The artist and the musician (story: Theobald & Co., 12 slides, in/before 1905)