Phenakistiscope Disc with Dancing Man
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1835
name: label: Designer
content: Simon von Stampfer, Austrian, 1792 - 1864
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: 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.
place: label: made in
content: Vienna, Austria
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John Innes Kane
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1948-124-1
objectType: label: Type
content: toys & games
label: Object Name
content: Optical toy
label: Type
content: Optical toy
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Hand-colored lithograph on paperboard
label: Dimensions
content: H x diam.: 25 × 25 cm (9 13/16 × 9 13/16 in.)