Coming soon to the Edmonds, Lawrence, and Fortune Galleries
The Williford Collection of American Art boasts seventy-one paintings depicting scenes from the Mediterranean. Throughout the 1800s, aristocratic young men from America traveled to Europe to journey through the ancient ruins of Greece, Rome, and Egypt, following the footsteps of their British predecessors who started the Grand Tour in the 1600s.
Magic Lanterns is an immersive exhibit containing luminous prints and projections of astronomical and astrological imagery sourced from 1860’s magic lantern slides from the Millington-Barnard Collection of Scientific Instruments. Magic Lanterns, a predecessor of modern slide projectors, was used to swindle, entertain, and enchant its audience for hundreds of years before the advent of moving pictures. Large projections of slides like these revolutionized teaching. With a single device that could fit in an average room a viewer could suddenly travel the globe or see through an observatory telescope lens.
Astrological Signs, Carpenter and Westley Magic Lantern Slides, ca. 1860
Magic Lanterns is an immersive exhibit containing luminous prints and projections of astronomical and astrological imagery sourced from 1860’s magic lantern slides from the Millington-Barnard Collection of Scientific Instruments. Magic Lanterns, a predecessor of modern slide projectors, was used to swindle, entertain, and enchant its audience for hundreds of years before the advent of moving pictures. Large projections of slides like these revolutionized teaching. With a single device that could fit in an average room a viewer could suddenly travel the globe or see through an observatory telescope lens.
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