EditorialEntertainers from the Bombay Theatre of Varieties at the India and Ceylon Exhibition, London. Theatrical entertainers gathered on the stage. The figures include a strongman holding a heavy stone above his head, a yogi in a particularly contorted postur...
EditorialEntertainers from the Bombay Theatre of Varieties at the India and Ceylon Exhibition, London. Theatrical entertainers gathered on the stage. The figures include a strongman holding a heavy stone above his head, a yogi in a particularly contorted postur...
EditorialGame Piece with Hercules Throwing Diomedes to His Man-Eating Horses, ca. 1150, Made in Cologne, Germany, German, Elephant ivory, Overall: diam. 2 3/4 x 13/16 in. (diam. 7 x 2 cm), Ivories, This carved ivory disk is a tableman, a game piece used in tabl...
EditorialLegendary Strongman Sakata Kinpira (Kintoki) Drinking Sake, Edo period (1615?1868), ca. 1750, Japan, Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper, H. 7 1/4 in. (18.4 cm); W. 11 3/8 in. (28.9 cm), Prints, Ishikawa Toyonobu (Japanese, 1711?1785).
EditorialWilliam Joy, the English Samson, strongman and performer of feats of strength, depicted in 1699 at age 24. Engraving by Cook from James Caulfield's Portraits, Memoirs and Characters of Remarkable Persons, London, 1819.