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Phenakistoscope disc with handle

circa 1830s

phenakistoscope

Phenakistoscope disc

circa 1830s
Phenakistoscope of Pixie with whip and top and small devil dancing. One of four discs for Stroboscope or Fantascope of miscellaneous origin.

Phenakistoscope Disc, Pixie with Whip and Top

circa 1840
Phenakistoscope 'The Magic Circle, No 10, Sarah and Bob'. Printed by C Treager. One of four discs for Stroboscope or Fantascope of miscellaneous origin.

Phenakistoscope Disc, 'The Magic Circle No 10, Sarah and Bob'

circa 1833
Phenakistoscope 'The Magic Circle, No 9', published by C Treager. One of four discs for Stroboscope or Fantascope of miscellaneous origin.

Phenakistoscope Disc, The Magic Circle No 9

circa 1833
Two Fantascope discs designed by Edward Sang (published by Forrester & Nicol, Edinburgh and John Dunn (Edinburgh Optician)). Forrester & Nichol of Edinburgh, a firm of engravers and lithographers - 'Drawings by Artists and Amateurs carefully Printed' - published a set entitled The Phenakistiscope or Magic Disc in the early autumn of 1833, in association with local optician John Dunn. Subjects included genre and natural history - a couple playing with their young child, a lifelike crawling beetle - and several mechanical animations designed by Scottish mathematician Edward Sang (1805-1890), best known for his logarithmic tables.

Two Fantascope discs by Edward Sang

1833
Phenakistoscope of Horserider Jumping a Gate and a child with a hula hoop. Hand coloured after printing. Published by S W Fores, 41 Picadilly, London. 1833. One of four discs for Stroboscope or Fantascope of miscellaneous origin.

Phenakistoscope disc of Horserider Jumping a Gate

c. 1833