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Slide set: The elephant's revenge (story: manufacturer unknown, 12 slides, n.d.)

Set details Slide listing

Descriptive data for this set (listed below slide images)

Slide 1

[A very sedate, quiet, and good Elephant]

Slide 2

[Squirting the water down his capacious throat]

Slide 3

[A sharp stinging sensation in his side]

Slide 4

[The elephant was filled with rage and indigation]

Slide 5

[The wretched native shrieks with terror]

Slide 6

[He feels himself dragged along at a tremendous pace]

Slide 7

[Again and again does the elephant give the fellow a ducking]

Slide 8

[The native finds himself lifted high in the air]

Slide 9

[The force is tremendous, and completely knocks him over]

Slide 10

no image available

Slide 11

[He makes his way to a delightful cactus bush]

Slide 12

[The elephant quickly trots away]

Number of slides

manufacturer unknown

Main type of image

drawing / painting / print

Main usage of set

Date of first manufacture

Source of slide images

Wilhelm Busch, Die Rache des Elephanten (Munich: 1863)

Related slide set

see generic title The elephant's revenge (generic set title – 8 different versions are known)

Notes

A hand-painted set based on Busch's 1863 story Die Rache des Elephanten (No. 354 in the Münchener Bilderbogen series).

The slide titles used here are taken from those allocated to the Theobald 12-slide set of the same title (Lucerna ID 3005956), based on its reading text. The slides of this set do not carry any titles.

Collections

11 slides in Royal Albert Memorial Museum Collection

Lucerna ID 3007651

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 27 April 2020

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