This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/25/2023
[ACROBATS AND JUGGLERS] ACROBATS, EQUILIBRISTS, AND JUGGLERS POSTER. American, ca. 1880. Oversize two-sheet stock poster with large color wood-engraved images of jugglers, equilibrists, and acrobats performing with juggling sticks (balancing hats), suspended from a trapeze (with a second bar being supported by ropes held in one acrobat’s mouth), balancing on each other’s shoulders, and contorted in a variety of poses. 69 x 41 3/4". With minor losses at intersecting folds and in margins expertly restored; B+. Linen backed. No printer’s name appears on the poster, though the work is reminiscent of Calhoun Printing of Hartford, and, to a lesser degree, the Ledger Job Printing Office of Philadelphia.