File:Politeness simulation (LOC cph.3g08085).gif

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English: Politeness (nineteenth century moving depiction of an eighteenth century couple bowing and curtsying to each other).
Deutsch: Politeness (neunzehnten Jahrhundert bewegende Darstellung eines achtzehnten Jahrhundert Paar Verbeugung und miteinander knicksend) |
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Date | [1833] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medium | 1 print on disc : lithograph, hand-colored | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Dimensions | 24 cm. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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institution QS:P195,Q131454 Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C., 20540 USA |
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Accession number |
Reproduction Number: LC-USZC4-8085 (color film copy transparency) Call Number: LOT 10527, no. 10 [P&P] |
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Place of creation | Haymarket, [London] : Published by Thos. McLean | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Notes |
Optical illusion disc which is spun displaying the illusion of motion of a man bowing and a woman curtsying to each other in a circle at the outer edge of the disc. Published in: McLean's optical illusions; or magic panorama. London, T. McLean, 1833. Exhibited: American Treasures of the Library of Congress. |
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