Circus Collection (page 18)

One Encore too many - Boy performer collapses backstage
One Encore too many - A young boy performer collapses backstage and is tended to by his female co-star, a kindly clown and another older member of the ensemble

Piccadilly Circus, London - looking south east down Lower Regent Street toward the Duke of York Column and the distant tower of the Houses of Parliament. Date: circa 1909

Piccadilly Circus - WW2
Piccadilly Circus, London - WW2 - Pedestrians military and civil, including an American GI and his gal. Date: circa 1942

Chalon-sur-Soane - Carnival Day
Chalon-sur-Soane, a commune in the Saone-et-Loire department in the region of Burgundy in eastern France. The Gladiators Circus is the theme of the first float, complete with columned theatre

New York, USA - Hippodrome- hosting (twice daily) Andresonville and a Yankee Circus on Mars featuring a cast of thousands! Date: circa 1910s

The Knife Throwing Denvers - UK US Wild West Act
The " Knife Throwing Denvers" - UK US Wild West Act - famous for being the first " circus style" act to appear on the newly formed BBC Television Service in 1936. Date: circa 1940

The Circus Clown anounces the End of the Book. Date: 1895

Two off-work clowns attract attention in a Garrison Town
In a Garrison Town. First Loafer to second Loafer (as out friends from the circus pass by) - " Officers!". This is likely to derive from the two clowns often getting entangled with the law

Two Actors outside a theatre comment on a Flea Circus
Two Actors outside a theatre (on observing the playbills displayed) pass comment on a Performing Flea Show. First Actor (resting) - " H m - a scratch company." Date: 1892

The Showman - An Extinct Type. - character portrait by Phil May of a barker or the proprietor of a sideshow. A barker is a person who attempts to attract patrons to entertainment events

Theatrical Jester
Portrait of a Theatrical Jester. Date: 1895

Flower Girls at Piccadilly Circus, London
Flower Girls on the steps of the Eros Statue at Piccadilly Circus, London Date: 1903

A Policeman at Piccadilly Circus, London, close to Eros
A Policeman at Piccadilly Circus, London, close to the Statue of Eros, stopping the traffic (consisting of a row of London taxis). Date: circa 1909

Comic Postcard - Romance at Piccadilly Circus " I meant t ge on the tube at Piccadilly last night, but I Got Off there instead!

St. Kitts, West Indies - The Circus, Basseterre Date: circa 1905

Male and Female British Servicemen - Piccadilly Circus
Male and Female British Servicemen on leave - Piccadilly Circus, London - WWII. Date: circa 1943

British Servicemen at Piccadilly Circus, London - WWII
British Servicemen (Army and Navy) at Piccadilly Circus, London during World War Two Date: circa 1943

France - Dancing the Cake-Walk Date: circa 1909

A circus horse called Fantome became the first horse to cross the English Channel by air when it was carried from Paris to London by a LiorÚáÑt Olivier LÚÅá21 of Air Union

A View of the Royal Circus from St Georges
Plate showing A View of the Royal Circus from St Georges Fields at the time of the Ascension of Arnolds Balloon. 1785

Circus aeruginosus, western marsh harrier
Plate 24 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 1 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Circus melanoleucos, pied harrier
Plate 1, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, from the Loten Collection of coloured drawings of Birds, Mammals, Insects & Plants, (1754-57)

Circus macrorus, pallid harrier
Plate 27 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 1 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Hen harrier design
Drawing by Alfred Waterhouse for the ornamentation of the Natural History Museum, London, 1875-1876. Waterhouse designed the museum in the 1860s, and it first opened its doors on Easter Monday 1881

Circus cyaneus, marsh hawk or northern harrier
Hand coloured engraving, by George Edwards (1694- 1773), 1758. Paper size: 285 x 120 mm. Original artwork held by the Natural History Museum

Circus cyaneus, hen harrier
Plate 356 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1835-38), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

SPAIN. BARCELONA. Representation of a circus scene. Quadrigas race. 3rd - 4th c. A.D. Roman art. Early Empire. Mosaic. SPAIN. Barcelona. Archaeology Museum of Catalonia

RAFFAELLI, Jean Fran篩s (1850-1924). The Orchestra

Mosaic with circus scene. 310. Roman art. Late Empire. Mosaic. SPAIN. Barcelona. Archaeology Museum of Catalonia. Proc: SPAIN. Barcelona

Circus mosaic. Roman art. Late Empire. Mosaic

Circus montage, including chimps tea party; an elephant, woman standing on a horese, dolphin, a seal balancing a ball and a dog jumping through a clowns hoop

London Institution
in Finsbury Circus. Date: 1827

Happy Hours Transfers. No 8
The Circus. Front and back cover from a series of Transfer Albums published by Raphael Tuck Date: circa 1938

Performing seal

African Lip Plates
Africans with lip plates (pelele), part of a circus, which was about to travel to London. Date: 1930s

Lion act
Charles Prinzs lions, Madmoiselle Marcella and her special troupe, 1904 Date: 1904

Bottle walking lion
Charles Prinzs lions, Leza the bottle walker, 1904 Date: 1904

Lion headed boy
Boy with the lions head, Reynolds Exhibition, 1901 Date: 1901

Cracker label
Cabaret Girl Christmas Crackers label, 1933 Date: 1933

The great Wallace shows: colossal 3 ring circus, 2 elevated stages. Poster shows the portraits of B. E. Wallace, Mlle. Norada French, and Mlle. Frenchs circus act. Date c1898

An animal keeper feeding raw meat to lions in a circus cage as spectators watch. Date c1891

Crowds at a circus sideshow viewing women and some men dressed in costumes of foreign lands. Date c1900

Five male trapeze artists performing at a circus. Date c1890

Male and female trapeze performers. Date c1875

Cookes Circus, York Hotel, Nicolson St. Poster for Cookes Circus showing three illustrations with text: a man on a trapeze()

Gala puppet circus Clowns, cowboys, acrobats, animals, and novelty acts. Poster for Federal Theatre Project presentation of a puppet circus, showing head of a clown. Date between 1936 and 1941

The Federal Arts Projects for New York City welcome the National Education Association of the United States Presenting plays, concerts, radio programs, art exhibits, publications, historical records

The Cole Bros. Circus arriving in town. Showing Monday 22nd June, 1908. 1908

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