File:Optical Toy, Phenakistiscope Disc with Dancing Man, ca. 1835-Animated.gif
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English: Optical Toy, Phenakistiscope Disc with Dancing Man, ca. 1835
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English: Optical Toy, Phenakistiscope Disc with Dancing Man, ca. 1835 |
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| Description |
English: Paper disc with a hole in the center, 8 rectangular perforations evenly spaced along perimeter for viewing. In the outermost ring, several still images show a dancing man in oriental costume in various stages of a low squat. In the innermost ring, a sun with a face orbits around a planet, showing the stages of day and night. Closest to the central perforation is a ring of blue stars at various angles. |
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| Date | circa 1835 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | hand-colored lithograph on paperboard | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | H x diam.: 25 × 25 cm (9 13/16 × 9 13/16 in.) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1948-124-1 |
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| Credit line | Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John Innes Kane | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source/Photographer | Catalog Photo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or fewer. This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929. |
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| current | 08:35, 4 November 2019 | | 1,000 × 1,000 (2.28 MB) | MiguelMunoz | Remove unnecessary border. |
| 05:58, 4 November 2019 |  | 1,000 × 1,000 (3.26 MB) | MiguelMunoz | User created page with UploadWizard |
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