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Polyorama Panoptique

about 1850
Medium/TechniquePaper covered wood box and colored lithograph views
DimensionsOverall: 12.7 × 15.2 × 12.7 cm (5 × 6 × 5 in.)
Credit LineThe Richard Balzer Collection—Gift of Patricia Bellinger Balzer
Accession number2019.841.1-13
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsTools and equipment
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)
about 1800
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Takei Takeo
November 25, 1963
Chiisana yuki onna (The Tiny Snow Woman)
Takei Takeo
May 5, 1975 (Shôwa 50)
Émile Reynaud
about 1877
Saddle
Unidentified artist
about 1430–60
Folder for a set of conical anamorphoses
Unidentified artist, Dutch, 18th century
about 1750
Allen Jones
1968