Fantascope Set
1933 (made)
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Fantascope with five-card discs with three-quarter-inch long radiating slots near the cirumference of the disc. One side of each disc has figures or animals in circular sequence with hand-coloured decoration. Contained in a board folder covered in marbled paper with a renewed cloth spine and ties, bearing on the front a lithographed pictoral label and inside a printed sheet of instructions. Accompanied by a copper holder containing the wooden handle for roating the discs, the copper holder a modern replica.
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Parts | This object consists of 6 parts.
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Materials and techniques | Wood, copper, card; hand-painted aquatints |
Brief description | Fantascope set by Joseph Plateau, published by Ackermann & Co., wood, copper, card; hand-painted aquatints, England, 1833 |
Physical description | Fantascope with five-card discs with three-quarter-inch long radiating slots near the cirumference of the disc. One side of each disc has figures or animals in circular sequence with hand-coloured decoration. Contained in a board folder covered in marbled paper with a renewed cloth spine and ties, bearing on the front a lithographed pictoral label and inside a printed sheet of instructions. Accompanied by a copper holder containing the wooden handle for roating the discs, the copper holder a modern replica. |
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Accession number | E.1879&1-5-1954 |
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Record created | July 1, 2009 |
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