on a lantern production of Cinderella at the Polytechnic, in which Childe was involved in painting slides, after designs of Henry George Hine. W. R. Hill (1823–1901) was Childe's apprentice in the slide painting art; he moved on in 1867 to work for John Henry Pepper of the Polytechnic. A surviving lantern slide of Hill's has dimensions 17 cm by 21 cm, larger than was standard. The Polytechnic's slides were professionally painted, by a group including also Charles Gogin, Isaac Knott, and Fid Page. Childe lived to age 93, dying in 1874. Notes Attribution 1781 births 1874 deaths English entertainers