Image of a royal court of whiteface clowns with a clown king on a throne labeled "The Master Mime" crowning the kneeling clown Alfred Miaco with a laurel wreath, with a line of clowns, a court jester, two female performers, statues on the wall labeled Denier, Fox, and Grimaldi, and a curtain labeled "Afe Llo Wofi Nfi Ni Tej Est"; vignette of a head-and-shoulders portrait of pantomime troupe manager Tony Denier in formal dress at top left in a laurel leaf frame; the poster advertises Denier's Humpty Dumpty Company. Probable date approximated by cataloger based on newspaper advertisement for show: "Tony Denier's Tri-Mammoth Humpty Dumpty Pantomime Company, with the greatest living clown, Alfred Frisbie Miaco ... Charles Leroux ..." ("Amusements," The Sun, 31 December 1882, page 10) "Shober & Carqueville Litho. Co. Chicago."--text, bottom right. "The King of Clowns Crowning Alfred F. Miaco, Heir to the Throne."--text, caption, lower right.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 50.8 x 73.66 cm (20 x 29 in.)
Denier, Tony, 1839?-1917--Portraits Miaco, Alfred F.--Portraits Circus performers--Pictorial works Clowns--Pictorial works Pantomime Royalty--Pictorial works Theatrical productions Humpty Dumpty Lithographs--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc) Theatrical posters--American. (gmgpc)
Source
Jay T. Last Collection Entertainment Large Size Music and Theater The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library
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