Slide set: The ducks and the frog (story: York & Son, 12 slides, in/before 1888)

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Slide 1

A duck and a drake are diving in search of prey

Slide 2**

Slide 3

The drake thinks he has a right to share

Slide 4**

Between them both the frog undergoes a variety of tortures

Slide 5

The duck prevents the drake from swallowing him entire

Slide 6

Whilst they are throttling each other the frog bolts

Slide 7

The frog leaps into the pump-trough; the ducks search after him

Slide 8

The frog runs for his life, pursued by the ducks

Slide 9

The frog has the good sense to go where the ducks cannot follow him

Slide 10

The ducks are unable to get their heads out, so there they have to stay quacking

Slide 11

The poulterer comes by and carries off the ducks

Slide 12

The frog was laid up for three weeks, but now, thank goodness, he is able to smoke his pipe

** there are alternative versions or views of this slide

Catalogue entries (8)

c.1889

Catalogue and price list of magic lantern slides and photographic transparencies (London: J. Brandon Medland, c.1889), A 25

1891

Complete catalogue of lantern slides, dissolving views, magic lanterns etc. (London: UK Band of Hope Union, 1891), B 60

1894

Wood's catalogue of slides, optical lanterns and dissolving views apparatus: forty-sixth issue (London: E.G. Wood, 1894), 113

1894

Wood's catalogue of slides, optical lanterns, and dissolving views apparatus: forty-eighth issue (London: E.G. Wood, 1894), 123

1898

Illustrated catalogue of magic, optical and dissolving view lanterns, lime-light apparatus and slides: season 1898-99 (London: Wrench & Son, 1898), 534

1905

Catalogue of optical lantern slides (Bradford: Riley Brothers, 1905), 279

c.1913

Catalogue of lanterns, slides and accessories (London: J.W. Butcher, c.1913), 366

c.1913

Lijst van lantaarnplaatjes (Nijmegen and Amsterdam: Ivens & Co., c.1913), 60

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), 286

“A duck and drake quarrel over the swallowing of a frog, putting him to a variety of tortures. In the end the frog escapes where they can't follow, but where they do succeed in getting their heads stuck till a poulterer carries them off. The frog was laid up for three weeks, but now, thank goodness, he is able to smoke his pipe.”

Lucerna ID 3001620

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 18 May 2024

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Slide set: The ducks and the frog (story: York & Son, 12 slides, in/before 1888)