(Circus Death Ride) | Death ride over the lion cage

(Circus Death Ride)
Die Todesfahrt über’m Löwenkäfig. Hamburg: Lith. Adolph Friedländer, [1910] (no. 4888)

Color lithograph poster (37 3/4 x 27 3/4 in.; 957 x 707 mm). Fold creases, central vertical crease with some minor loss and a little nearly imperceptible overpainting. Laid down on linen.

Three women cyclers pedal on a wall of death cylinder suspended above a lion cage in this German circus poster from the early twentieth century.

REFERENCE:
Exemplars, p. 343

Condition Report:
Condition as described in catalogue entry.

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