The Ricky Jay Collection
The Ricky Jay Collection
Auction Closed
October 28, 08:54 PM GMT
Estimate
2,500 - 3,500 USD
Lot Details
Description
Manns, Willy
Circus Corty-Althoff. Der Todesritt. Hamburg: Lith. Adolph Friedländer, ca. 1903 (no. 2773)
Color lithograph poster (26 3/4 x 36 1/2 in.; 680 x 927 mm). Light fold creases. Matted, framed, and glazed with Plexiglas.
A striking poster from the heyday of Germany's Circus Corty-Althoff, one of the largest circuses in Europe at the fin de siècle, depicting a daredevil rider jumping an obstacle while both he and his mount are blindfolded. According to other Friedländer promotional posters, Willy Manns also performed in an elephant act.
REFERENCE:
Exemplars, pp. 140–41