The Darleys | Two Darleys on a bicycle built for one, The Darleys | Two Darleys on a bicycle built for one

The Darleys
The Darley's. Hamburg: Lith Adolph Friedländer, [1910] (no. 4889)

Color lithograph poster on 2 sheets (73 1/4 x 27 3/4 in.; 1862 x 705 mm). Neatly backed, some minor chipping at lower left corner. Framed and glazed with Plexiglas.

The Darleys were a European act who combined juggling with acrobatic cycling. The Spanish periodical Eco Artistico (no. 21, 15 May 1910) identified them as "ciclistas" in Madrid in 1910. A scarce survival of a once popular but now little remembered music-hall act.

REFERENCE:
Exemplars, p. 313

Condition Report:
Condition as described in catalogue entry.

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