Slide set: The dream of the reveller: or the whiskey demon (recitation: Alfred Pumphrey, 12 slides, in/before 1888)

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Slide 1

'Body and soul are mine,' said he / 'I'll have them both for liquor'

Slide 2

Slide 3

Slide 4

The Demon's Home. 'Come, drown all care and sorrow'

Slide 5**

Slide 6

no image available

Slide 7

The Three Roads. 'I'll be your friend in hour of need, / And find you homes for ever'

Slide 8

The Demon's First House. 'The first it is a spacious house / To all but sots appalling'

Slide 9

The Demon's Second House. 'The second is a lazar house, / Rank, fetid, and unholy'

Slide 10

The Demon's Third House. 'The third and last is black and high / The abode of guilt and anguish'

Slide 11

The Demon's Hour-Glass. 'Out on the fool who mars to-day / With thoughts of a hereafter'

Slide 12

** there are alternative versions or views of this slide

Catalogue entries (3)

unknown

List of popular lantern photographs (Birmingham: Alfred Pumphrey, n.d.), 8

1891

Complete catalogue of lantern slides, dissolving views, magic lanterns etc. (London: UK Band of Hope Union, 1891), F [2]

“Graphic illustrations of Mackay's thrilling poem”

c.1893

J. Theobald and Company's extra special illustrated catalogue of magic lanterns, slides and apparatus (London: Theobald & Co., c.1893), 195

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), 315

“Chas. Mackay. 'Body and soul are mine,' said he, ' I'll have them both for liquor.'”

Lucerna ID 3005100

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 9 March 2024

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Slide set: The dream of the reveller: or the whiskey demon (recitation: Alfred Pumphrey, 12 slides, in/before 1888)