Magic Lantern Slide: Seaside fun, Exmouth

This magic lantern slide shows a group of children having fun playing in the sea at Exmouth beach.

William Weaver Baker was a keen local amateur photographer and his collection of lantern slides offer a rare glimpse of Exeter and the surrounding area in the early twentieth century.

Images like this remind us that photography as an art form has not evolved in isolation. The setting and composition of this image is similar to many Impressionist and post-Impressionist paintings which were produced in the same era as this photograph.