EditorialSix satyrs or fauns performing on a tightrope. Two carry a thyrsus, one plays a tibia, one plays a lyre, one pours wine from one vase to another, and one balances with his hands together. Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of ...
EditorialSanger's Grand National Amphitheatre. The Great Alvantee, 1872. The great Alvantee, king of the slanting wire. A tightrope artist walking a wire. A collection of pamphlets, handbills, and miscellaneous printed matter relating to Victorian entertainment...
EditorialA group of people gather before a stage on which a mountebank displays his goods on the left, next to two ecclesiastics and a street-seller surrounded by small children in the middle and a couple walking past a puppet show on the right in the foregroun...
EditorialHot air balloon with advertisements for "Tea E Brandsma" in the background a tightrope walker over a fairground, Anonymous, c. 1900 - c. 1910.
EditorialTightrope acrobats on stage in front of a fashionable audience. Dick Wildfire and Jenkins in a Theatrical Pandemonium, or the Cafe de la Paix in all its glory. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Cruikshank from David Carey's Life in Paris, th...
EditorialThe incomparable Ravel, a guitar-playing French tightrope artist from the early 19th century, with two dancers on thick ropes. Woodcut by Huyot from Paul Lacroix's "Directoire, Consulat et Empire," Paris, 1884.
EditorialThe incomparable Ravel, a guitar-playing French tightrope artist from the early 19th century, with two dancers on thick ropes. "Only one theatre is full in Paris, that of the Incomparable Ravel, rival of the Illustrious Forioso." Handcoloured engraving...
EditorialSix satyrs or fauns performing on a tightrope. Two carry a thyrsus, one plays a tibia, one plays a lyre, one pours wine from one vase to another, and one balances with his hands together. Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of ...