[Juggler in red costume; acrobat jumping off horse and through hoop]
Pre-cinema
[Juggler in red costume; acrobat jumping off horse and through hoop]
Motoscope, of wonderschijf
Phenakistoscope disk
ca. 1833
Lithograph with applied color
Diameter: 7 1/16 in. (18 cm)
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company, ex-collection Gabriel Cromer
Inscriptions Inscribed in pencil (Cromer's hand) on verso, T: original du Motoscope
Printed in ink, on original box label, TC: MOTOSCOPE \ OF WONDERSCHIJF. \ [text in Dutch]
Printed in ink, on original box label, BC: LINIEER \ FABRIEK \ J.J. Wychers \ KANTOOR-BOEKBINDER \ te \ Amsterdam. \ [street adress in Dutch]
Printed in ink, on original box label, TC: MOTOSCOPE \ OF WONDERSCHIJF. \ [text in Dutch]
Printed in ink, on original box label, BC: LINIEER \ FABRIEK \ J.J. Wychers \ KANTOOR-BOEKBINDER \ te \ Amsterdam. \ [street adress in Dutch]
