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

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Slide 1**

An artist and musician live with only a wall and a grudge between them

Slide 2**

The musician generally contrives to practise at the same time as his neighbour

Slide 3**

Who is almost distracted by the abominable noise

Slide 4**

He buries his head under the bedclothes until it is over

Slide 5**

He conceives a plan by which to stop such vile performances

Slide 6**

When he discovers the trick, the fiddler's fury knows no bounds

Slide 7**

Slide 8**

Slide 9**

A pitched battle follows, in which the dog plays a noble part

Slide 10**

The artist empties a bottle of varnish over his assailant

Slide 11

Slide 12

A picturesque and profitable termination

** there are alternative versions or views of this slide

Catalogue entries (10)

c.1889

Catalogue and price list of magic lantern slides and photographic transparencies (London: J. Brandon Medland, c.1889), B 31

1891

Complete catalogue of lantern slides, dissolving views, magic lanterns etc. (London: UK Band of Hope Union, 1891), A 31

1891

Complete catalogue of lantern slides, dissolving views, magic lanterns etc. (London: UK Band of Hope Union, 1891), B 66

1892

Illustrated catalogue of magic, optical and dissolving view lanterns, lime-light apparatus, etc.: season 1892-93 (London: Wrench & Son, 1892), 200

1894

Wood's catalogue of slides, optical lanterns and dissolving views apparatus: forty-sixth issue (London: E.G. Wood, 1894), 114

1894

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

1898

Illustrated catalogue of magic, optical and dissolving view lanterns, lime-light apparatus and slides: season 1898-99 (London: Wrench & Son, 1898), 528

1901

Catalogue of lantern slides: season 1901-2 (Dundee: Peter Feathers, 1901), 56

1909

Descriptive catalogue of lantern slides: available for hire or purchase (London: Walter Tyler, 1909), 669

c.1913

Lijst van lantaarnplaatjes (Nijmegen and Amsterdam: Ivens & Co., c.1913), 66

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), 288

“An artist and a musician live with only a wall and a grudge between them. The musician practises much, and the artist conceives a plan to stop such vile performances, thereby rousing the fiddler's fury. On the artist resuming work, life suddenly springs into his picture, the sequel having a picturesque and profitable termination.”

Lucerna ID 3002665

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 17 May 2024

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