@inbook{b10ab66a0e0747d6958d651cfaccb10c,
title = "Flights of fancy: The Production, Reception and Implications of Lawrence Hargrave{\textquoteright}s Magic Lantern Lecture {\textquoteleft}Lope de Vega{\textquoteright}",
abstract = "This chapter considers a collection of magic lantern slides developed by the late nineteenth-century gentleman-inventor Lawrence Hargrave. Although best known for his early ideas and experimentation in aeronautics and for his efforts to build and test machines for manned flight, Hargrave also held a curious theory about the Spanish discovery and exploration of Australia. It is his unique, albeit circumstantial and unsubstantiated, hypothesis {\textquoteleft}Lope de Vega{\textquoteright} that forms the basis of his engagement with magic lantern technology. As a suite of slides it represents a strange confluence of images gathered, altered and ordered by Hargrave from a variety of sources. Among the eclectic assortment of raw materials Hargrave drew upon to build his visual argument were a number of rock engravings he had observed in Sydney Harbour. This chapter addresses the genesis, production and potential impacts of Hargrave{\textquoteright}s magic lantern lecture.",
keywords = "rock art, magic lantern, heritage collection, Colonial Australia, visual studies, history, photography, Lawrence Hargrave, exploration",
author = "Frederick, {Ursula K.}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020 Taylor & Francis.",
year = "2020",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.4324/9780429317576-8",
language = "English",
isbn = "9780367322564",
volume = "300",
series = "Routledge Studies in Cultural History",
publisher = "Routledge",
pages = "120–137",
editor = "Martyn Jolly and Elisa deCourcy",
booktitle = "The Magic Lantern at Work",
address = "United Kingdom",
}