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Fantascope disc

Designed by: Joseph Plateau (Belgian, 1801 – 1883)
Published by: Ackermann & Co., London
1833

Medium/Technique Lithograph with hand coloring, mounted to card stock
Dimensions Height x diameter: 24.3 × 24.3 cm (9 9/16 × 9 9/16 in.)
Credit Line The Richard Balzer Collection—Gift of Patricia Bellinger Balzer
Accession Number2019.817.5
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsTools and equipmentOptical

ProvenanceBetween about 1970 and 2017, acquired by Richard Balzer (b. 1944 - d. 2017), Brookline, MA; by inheritance to Patricia Bellinger; 2019, gift of Patricia Bellinger to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 24, 2019)