[Boy hoop rolling, girl on swing; acrobat jumping on tightrope]
Pre-cinema
[Boy hoop rolling, girl on swing; acrobat jumping on tightrope]
Motoscope, or wonderschijf
Phenakistoscope disk
ca. 1833
Lithograh with applied color
Diameter: 6 15/16 in. (17.7 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]
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