The zoopraxiscope - a horse back somersault
c1893.
1 print : lithograph, color. Notes: Title from item.
No. 1.
Copyright by Eadweard Muybridge.
Images on a disc which when spun gives the illusion of a man doing a somersault on horseback.
Exhibited: Helios: Eadweard Muybridge in a Time of Change, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, April - July 2010. Subjects: Acrobatics--1890-1900.
Horseback riding--1890-1900.
Locomotion--1890-1900.
Optical illusions--1890-1900. Format: Optical toys--1890-1900.
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Animated Optical illusion disc of a man doing a arial somersault while standing on the back of a galloping horse.