Glass Lantern Slide, Napoleon before the battle of the pyramids
This hand colored lantern slide was made by the McIntosh Battery and Optical Company, Chicago, around 1890. It's based on the painting by Antoine-Jean Gros: "Napoleon's speech to his army before the battle of the pyramids", which took place on July 21st, 1798. I've read that the artist stretched history bit, in that the battle did not take place within sight of the pyramids, as the painting would lead you to believe. The second figure in the image is Louis Alexandre Berthier, Napoleon's Chief of Staff. Scanning to get a sharp image was a problem, with the thickness of the wooden frame creating soft focus, along with flare and reflections around the edge of the circular "window". I finally had to carefully remove the glass image "sandwich" from the frame (held in place with a brass retaining ring) run the scan, then remount it. Future lantern slide projects will involve shooting the image on a light table, which will probably give the same results but with far less bother. A fair amount of image "clean-up" was required to remove small blips and blemishes in the emulsion. Diameter of the glass plate image is 3 inches (7.6cm).
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Glass Lantern Slide, Napoleon before the battle of the pyramids
This hand colored lantern slide was made by the McIntosh Battery and Optical Company, Chicago, around 1890. It's based on the painting by Antoine-Jean Gros: "Napoleon's speech to his army before the battle of the pyramids", which took place on July 21st, 1798. I've read that the artist stretched history bit, in that the battle did not take place within sight of the pyramids, as the painting would lead you to believe. The second figure in the image is Louis Alexandre Berthier, Napoleon's Chief of Staff. Scanning to get a sharp image was a problem, with the thickness of the wooden frame creating soft focus, along with flare and reflections around the edge of the circular "window". I finally had to carefully remove the glass image "sandwich" from the frame (held in place with a brass retaining ring) run the scan, then remount it. Future lantern slide projects will involve shooting the image on a light table, which will probably give the same results but with far less bother. A fair amount of image "clean-up" was required to remove small blips and blemishes in the emulsion. Diameter of the glass plate image is 3 inches (7.6cm).
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