[f. LANTERN sb. + -IST.] One who uses, or of the nature of, a magic lantern.
1878. Stockport Advertiser, 6 Dec., 7/7. Reflects great credit on Mr Chadwick, who is a thorough master of the lanternist art.
1880. Ch. Times, 12 Nov., 744. Photographs of the persecuted clergy, with their churches, &c., would be of great use to ‘lanternists’ this winter.
1891. Anthony’s Photogr. Bull., IV. 336. A bad lot of slides … or a bungling lanternist.
