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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Where Hideous Creatures Climb
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.

Where Hideous Creatures Climb

Manufacturer The M.C. Lilley & Co.
CultureAmerican
Date1900-1910
MediumGlass | Enamel | Wood
DimensionsOverall, Frame: 4 x 7 in. (10.2 x 17.8 cm)
Overall: 3 1/8 in. (7.9 cm)
InscribedWooden frame incised: "The M.C. Lilley & Co.,/Columbus, Ohio" and a paper label on the edge: "9. Where hideous creatures climb./by The M.C.Lilley & Co., Columbus, O.".
Credit LineGift of Orva Walker Heissenbuttel, the Orva Collection of Ohio Glass
Object number84.89
Not on view
DescriptionMagic lantern slide. Enameled glass disk in a wooden frame. Scene called "Where hideous creatures climb" of crocodiles, snakes, buzzards and moss draped trees in a swampy landscape. Crack through bottom third.

New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Unknown
8th century - 7th century B.C.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
John Gadsby Chapman
1836-1849
4x5 transparency scanned on Hasselblad Flextight X1 by Ed Pollard-2010.
Adolphe-William Bouguereau
1862
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Unknown
618-906
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Fritz Eichenberg
1965
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
Thomas McLean
1826-1830
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
No Date
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Mt. Washington Glass Co.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
Unknown
Ptolemaic Period, 199 - 99 B.C.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.
Unknown
1476-1532