Slide set: The trial of Sir Jasper (recitation: York & Son, 25 slides, in/before 1887)

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Slide 1

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Slide 2

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Slide 6

'Is it too late to save him? God, we pray / His guardian angel may not pass away'

Slide 7

'Ten thousand devils haunt him day and night; / Haunt him alike in darkness and in light'

Slide 8

'A common incident of blighted life: / Mourn for the wretched sufferers -- child and wife'

Slide 9

'See the degraded wretch we picture here; / He blights the corn before it reach the ear'

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Slide 12

'The artist paints him -- lowest of the low: / Alas! Giles Jonson; 'twas not always so'

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Slide 15

'She may be welcomed by the Seraphim, / Where SINNERS PENITENT find pardoning grace'

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'And when the babe was dead / 'Twas 'accidental death' the jury said'

Slide 17

'This happened in New Zealand: they had placed / A drunken Maori in the public stocks'

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Slide 19

'ENTER THE PRISON: see the good man there, / Who from the death-doomed sinner drives despair'

Slide 20

'The artist saw this scene in London Square, / One night of snow, or nearer early morning'

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Slide 22

'Can you not guess what these pool-bubbles mean, / Though of the self-drowned woman nought is seen!'

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Number of slides

Manufacturer

York & Son, England

Other related organisations

in stock of W.C. Hughes, dates unknown

in stock of Riley Brothers, 1887-1914 (item ref. 81)

in stock of UK Band of Hope Union, 1891

in stock of E.G. Wood, 1894 (item ref. 7694)

in stock of Newton & Co., 1899-1913 (item ref. IU)

in stock of J. Lizars, 1909 (item ref. 126)

in stock of Ivens & Co., 1913

Main type of image

drawing / painting / print

Main usage of set

recitation

Date of first manufacture

unknown (latest possible 1887)

Source of slide images

S.C. Hall, The trial of Sir Jasper: a temperance tale in verse (London: H. Virtue & Co. Ltd., 1873)

Readings or songs

J.W. Kirton, ‘J.W. Kirton on The trial of Sir Jasper’ in Lantern readings original and selected 1 (5th ed.) (c.1874)

S.C. Hall, The trial of Sir Jasper: a temperance tale in verse (London: H. Virtue & Co. Ltd., 1873)

LUCERNA – the Magic Lantern Web Resource

Slide set: The trial of Sir Jasper (recitation: York & Son, 25 slides, in/before 1887)