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Phenakistiscope Disc with Dancing Man

Simon von Stampfer, Austrian, 1792 - 1864ca. 1835

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States

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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  • Title: Phenakistiscope Disc with Dancing Man
  • Creator: Simon von Stampfer, Austrian, 1792 - 1864
  • Date Created: ca. 1835
  • Location Created: Vienna, Austria
  • Original Source: http://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/97517
  • Medium: Hand-colored lithograph on paperboard
  • Credit line: Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John Innes Kane
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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