Slide set: The bashful man (story: Alfred Pumphrey, 7 slides, in/before 1873)

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Slide 1**

Slide 2**

Slide 3**

Upsets books in the library and spills the ink, wiping it up with his pocket handkerchief

Slide 4**

Spills his soup into his lap and scalds himself

Slide 5**

Slide 6**

Takes some brandy in mistake for wine, and squirts it out of his mouth and nose over the table and company

Slide 7**

Wipes his face with inky pocket handkerchief, upsets the gravity of the company, and decamps

** there are alternative versions or views of this slide

Catalogue entries (3)

unknown

List of popular lantern photographs (Birmingham: Alfred Pumphrey, n.d.), 10

“New and Original Designs.”

1891

Complete catalogue of lantern slides, dissolving views, magic lanterns etc. (London: UK Band of Hope Union, 1891), F [1]

“A most laughable description of misadventures resulting from the bashfulness of the hero”

c.1893

J. Theobald and Company's extra special illustrated catalogue of magic lanterns, slides and apparatus (London: Theobald & Co., c.1893), 197

“New and original designs.”

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), 283

“Showing the scrapes and misfortunes he gets into at a dinner.”

Lucerna ID 3005063

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 9 March 2024

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Slide set: The bashful man (story: Alfred Pumphrey, 7 slides, in/before 1873)