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Le Diable en Baiteille

Object NameMagic Lantern Slide of Polichinel

Made FromGlass, Paper

Dateabout 1801-1994

TechniqueCut, printed, cold-painted, glued

SizeOverall H: 5.5 cm, L: 21.7 cm, Th: 0.2 cm

Accession Number95.3.9 A

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Place Made

probably France

Physical DescriptionColorless; cut, printed, cold-painted, glued. Slides consisting of two rectangles of colorless sheet glass framed in green paper tape around edges. The slides are divided into printed segments separated by vertical lines. The two scenes on the left illustrate the story of the Devil in the Bottle. The far left illustration No 1 is mostly missing. The next segment shows Polichinel on the left confronting the dragon Lucifer on the right. The next scene shows Polichinel being attached by the dragon, now changed to a snake. The text in the panel to the far right explains: "Le Diable en Bouteille/ N 1. ô la la il me vole il me/ bat c'est trop fort, tu me/ payeras ça, Lucifer./ N 2. Polichinel je vais te manger!!! au secours a moi./ N 3. Ah mon dieu la vilaine bête; assez Mr le Diable j'ai trop peur."
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