c1890 Life of Christ Blessing Baby in Temple by Joseph Boggs Beale Lantern Slide

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c1890 Life of Christ Blessing Baby in Temple by Joseph Boggs Beale Lantern Slide:
$6.99

Ths is a glass magic lantern slide, beautifully colored, from around the turn of the last century. It is unlabeled. It is one of a large set which I will be listing that are all New Testament, Life of Christ. This would be the blessing of Baby Jesus in the temple. This slide was drawn by premier magic lantern slide artist Joseph Boggs Beale, 1841-1926. Beale attended the Locust Street Grammar School, Central High School, and Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art (PAFA). He returned to Central High in October 1862, having beaten out a young Thomas Eakins to become the school\'s professor of drawing and writing. In June 1863, Beale enlisted in the army. Just a few weeks after enlisting, Beale was appointed a regimental artist and supplied drawings from the field to various magazines for publication. During his tenure he sketched various scenes of camps, soldiers, and battlefields, including Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and Hagerstown, Maryland. Beale was mustered out of the army in early August 1863. Beale resumed teaching in September 1863, but retired just a few years later. He went on to work as an illustrator for magazines such as Frank Leslie\'s Weekly, Harper\'s, and the Daily Graphic. In 1868, he married Mary Louise Taffart and the couple moved to Chicago, Illinois, where Beale worked as a book illustrator. Unfortunately, Beale lost the majority of his work during the Chicago fire of October 1871, after which Beale and his wife moved back to Philadelphia. He found commercial work with the Frank Harris Lithography Company and as a magic lantern slide illustrator for Caspar W. Briggs, one of Philadelphia\'s early glass slide dealers. These hand-tinted slides, which were placed inside machines known as \"magic lanterns\" that projected the images onto screens, were a popular form of Victorian-era entertainment that lasted into the early twentieth century. Beale created hundreds of such slides later in his career and illustrated everything from Bible stories and morality tales to children\'s stories and popular songs and poems. Many of his magic lantern slide drawings were discovered after his death and were presumably dispersed into the hands of museums and private collectors. Slides are 3 1/4\" x 3 1/4 and can be viewed by projecting, holding to the light, or placing on a light box. These slides can be made into a photograph or poster. If you would like information on having that done AFTER you purchase the views, please let me know. You can learn more about magic lanterns and slides by going to www.magiclanternsociety.org. I offer a reduced postage amount for multiple items IF you email for the cost. Please remember to do this otherwise you will overpay. Thanks for your business, Bob

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On Dec-03-14 at 08:02:50 PST, seller added the following information:

NOT by Beale but by Robert Hawker Dowling (1827-86) an Australian artist who lived and painted in London from 1859-82.