MAGIC LANTERN. Suite of sixteen bullfighting scenes in color - Lot 193

MAGIC LANTERN. Suite of sixteen bullfighting scenes in color... [France], without publisher, [ca 1880]... The scenes are presented two by two on eight glass plates of 5.5 x 22 cm framed with the original green paper. Preserved in their original wooden case... Legends in French and Spanish:. 2/3. Driving bulls (encierro de los toros); Picador en suerte (Picador in suerte). 4/5. Attack of the fight (entrada del toro a la bara); Toréador abandoning his cloak (salida el capote) . 6/7. Picador falls (caida del picador); The bull comes back to charge (entrada de racarga) . 8/9. Fall where the picador is uncovered (caida a descubierto); Banderillero exciting the bull (llamada a. la banderillas) . 10 / 11. Banderillero pricking the banderilla (banderillas a media vuelta); Toréador taken by the bull (cogida. de un banderillero) . 12/13. Attack of the bull against the dogs (Perros); Jumping of the lance by Montes (salto de la garrocha por. Montes) . 14/15. Pass of the muleta (Pase la muleta); Sword thrust (estocada)... 16/17. Coup de grâce (seal); the bull dragged out of the enclosure by the mules. (sacan al toro las mulas)... The suite is complete but the title seems to be missingWe provide a very nice magic lantern of the time. 27 cm high with its scalloped chimney; 22 cm wide (including its telescopic optical system). The lantern is made of iron painted in red copper color. The base and the crown are gilded. Traces of oxidation. The glass plates fit perfectly. Very rare set