This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 3/26/2022
[Photographs] Twenty-One Photographs of a Victorian-Era Magician. American, ca. 1870. Significant grouping of early albumen photographs depicting an unknown conjurer of the early Victorian era, as well as his tables laden with early conjuring apparatus. The performer poses with a very large Change Bag, Rising Cards, Linking Rings, turned wooden apparatus, Production Lanterns, and several handsome toleware props. Other images depict marionettes, or simply his table covered in props (the magician’s large center table bears an American flag-like shield as part of its design, and the stars and stripes are integrated into the finish of at least one prop). Handsomely framed to 32 ¼ x 26 ¼”. Small elements of the large central portrait hand-colored. An impressive early American grouping.