Phenakistiscope Disc with Cats and Donkey
Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Paper disc with a hole in the center, 10 rectangular perforations evenly spaced along perimeter for viewing. In the outermost ring, several still images show the progress of a large cat chasing a small cat with a mouse in its teeth; the large cat jumps over a stool with a red cushion. In the innermost ring, a donkey wearing a blue shirt moves its ears.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John Innes Kane
- ca. 1830
- Accession Number
- 1948-124-3
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- toys & games
- Object Name
- Optical toy
- Type
- Optical toy
- Medium
- Hand-colored lithograph on paperboard
- Dimensions
- H x diam.: 25 × 25 cm (9 13/16 × 9 13/16 in.)
- made in
- Vienna, Austria
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1948-124-3
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq43b18e68c-eab3-45de-b362-f51b48996e17
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