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Dr. Ormonde (Andrew Garrioch Ormond)

Dr. Ormonde's Great Sunflower Coterie. Roars of Laughter. Hamburg: Lith. Adolph Friedländer, ca. 1907 (no. 4061)

Color lithograph poster (33 5/8 x 25 3/4 in.; 854 x 654 mm). Light fold creases, some recoloring to upper margin and caption. Laid down on linen.

The Great Sunflower Coterie was a variety magic show presented by a company comprised largely of Ormond's family. The macabre image revealed behind the open floral curtains on the poster—featuring a winged devil's head, a decapitation, dancing skeletons, and a gigantic snake—seems ill-suited for an act that provoked "roars of laughter."