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George Du Maurier
1834-1896
Edison's telephonoscope : (transmits light as well as sounds).
[London : s.n., 1878?]
wood engraving
image: 113 x 183 mm; sheet: 244 x 319 mm
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1229
Notes
Title from published caption.
Caption continues: (Every evening, before going to bed, Pater and Materfamilias set up an electric camera-obscura over their bedroon mantle-piece, and gladden their eyes with the sight of their children at the Antipodes, and converse gaily with them through the wire.) ...
Proof of a wood engraving after an illustration by Du Maurier for Punch's almanack for 1879.
Caption continues: (Every evening, before going to bed, Pater and Materfamilias set up an electric camera-obscura over their bedroon mantle-piece, and gladden their eyes with the sight of their children at the Antipodes, and converse gaily with them through the wire.) ...
Proof of a wood engraving after an illustration by Du Maurier for Punch's almanack for 1879.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Cartoon shows a man and a woman sitting in front of a fireplace holding early telephone mouthpieces in their hands; on the wall above the fireplace is a projected image showing a group of young people playing tennis as a young woman with a racquet stands at left talking into a telephone.
Associated names
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Artist
Classification
Department
Century prints
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