This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 10/28/2023
[ACROBATICS] Woodcut of a daring somersault over soldiers in uniforms with rifles and bayonets. French[?], ca. 18th/19th century. Woodcut on wove paper, depicting a major springing from a platform and somersaulting over 20 soldiers with bayonet rifles. 9? × 17" (image); 14½ × 17½" (sheet). Unsigned; trimmed at left edge, or from one of two sheets. Scattered pale spotting. This image was used as the basis of a Mulholland Library of Conjuring and the Allied Arts movable holiday greeting card in the late 1980s.