Image of a male gymnast, presumably Charles Leroux, doing flips across horizontal bars in an outdoor clearing surrounded by trees while two whiteface clowns watch, including one who presumably is Alfred F. Miaco; vignettes of head-and-shoulder portraits of two unidentified men in the top corners, presumably Tony Denier and LeRoux. 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 Lith. Co., Chicago."--text, bottom right margin. "Introducing wonderful and unparalleled feats on the horizontal bar & double somersaults from / the bar to the stage, assisted by A.F. Miaco, 'the Clown.'"--text, continuation of title, top centered.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 50.8 x 74.93 cm (20 x 29 1/2 in.)
Denier, Tony, 1839?-1917--Portraits Leroux, Charles, 1856 or 1857-1889--Portraits Miaco, Alfred F.--Portraits Acrobats--Pictorial works Circus performers--Pictorial works Clowns--Pictorial works Pantomime 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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