One form of popular entertainment in the eighteenth century was the magic lantern, a device that operated like the modern-day slide machine. Here we see the figure of Father Time leaning a magic lantern on a globe to show allegorical figures of the four continents - from left to right, America, Africa, Europe and Asia - a slide with fantastic imagery relating to the American Revolution. At the center of the image is an exploding tea pot which sends a snake and a Phrygian cap - the symbol of liberty - into the air. British troops flee to the left as American forces march forward to the right. Carl Guttenberg made this print in Paris the same year that France took up the American cause.