Pinder, George, & William Pinder | Stunt riding in an English-French circus

Pinder, George, & William Pinder

Cirque Pinder [Equestrian Acrobats]. Montauban: Affiches J. Guillau, 1890s

Color lithograph poster (26 x 37 in.; 661 x 940 mm). Fold and other creases with a few tiny losses, some minor wrinkling. Laid down on linen.

Cirque Pinder was founded in England as the Britannia Circus in 1854, specializing in equestrian acts like those depicted on this poster. Beginning in 1869, the Pinder brothers began spending half of each season in France, and in 1904 the now eponymous circus established itself there permanently.