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Clown with food and drink on a Christmas and New Year card, with Harlequin and Columbine on either side of him (they are stealing from Pantalones table on the other side of the windows)
Four laughing clowns on a Christmas card, with seasonal verse. Date: circa 1890s
Clown with cup and ball on a Christmas and New Year cardClown playing with cup and ball on a Christmas and New Year card. Date: circa 1890s
Clown falling from a donkey on a greetings card, with accompanying verse. (2 of 2) Date: circa 1890s
Clown with head through paper hoop on a greetings cardClown with his head through a paper hoop on a greetings card. circa 1890s
Victorian Scrap, clown in red and yellow costume. circa 1880s
Victorian Scrap, circus ring with performers and animals. circa 1880s
Victorian Scrap, clown with white beard. circa 1880s
Victorian Scrap, clown with painted face and pointed hair. circa 1880s
Victorian Scrap, acrobat and clown. circa 1880s
Victorian Scrap, clown riding a donkey. circa 1880s
Victorian Scrap, Clown playing an instrumentVictorian Scrap, Clown playing a musical instrument. circa 1880s
Victorian Scrap, clown in green and black striped costume, balancing his pointed hat upside down on his finger. circa 1880s
People in fancy dress on the deck of a ship. Date: circa 1920s
The warty or clown frogfish, Antennarius maculatus, and the marbled lophius, Lophius marmoratus.. Handcolored copperplate zoological engraving from George Shaw
Bartklime Linck, Swiss clown, 16th century.. Handcolored lithograph after an illustration by Edmond Lechevallier-Chevignard from Georges Duplessiss Historical Costumes of the 16th
Washington Club Band, New Bedford, Massachusetts, USAWashington Club Novelty Band, New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA, with people in fancy dress holding musical instruments. Date: circa 1906
Clown & poodleA classic whiteface clown with a Christmas pudding and a dancing poodle.Date: 1900
A Day at the Fair. The clown. The children all come when the clown beats the drum? Date: circa 1926
Funnygraph. Edwardian humour with clown and a dog listening to a phonograph. Date: 1903
James Montgomery Flagg and wifeAmerican artist and illustrator, James Montgomery Flagg, best-known for his propaganda posters, pictured dressed as a clown at a fancy dress Illustrators ball in New York in 1916. Date: 1916
Crown prince puppet toy, WW1A British girl pictured with a puppet which depicts Crown Prince Wilhelm, eldest son of the Kaiser (known by the nickname of Little Willie in Britain) as a rather foolish clown. Date: 1915
The Onions, WW1 entertainment troupeThe Onions, a concert party entertaining troops on the Western Front during the First World War, so-called because they said they were always
Toy TheatreClassic pantomime characters such as Clown, Pantaloon and Harlequin jostle with a dog musician, a dog cart, Mr & Mrs Dashaway and Mr Doublesight to form a production of Harlequin Jack Sheppard. c
The Pom Pom Pierrots, entertainers of wounded soldiers. The troupe was formed expressly for the voluntary entertainment of convalescent and wounded soldiers in hospitals
Mabel Sealby (1885 - ), British actress. Playing Clown Heroine of the Circus musical comedy in " Head over Heels" at Adelphi Theatre, london
Victorian clown greetings cardBack design of a greetings card from the Victorian era featuring three clowns wearing colourful, striped knickerbockers, clambering over the edge of the card
Cartoon, Knuckledown Fair, showing a busy scene at a fairground. Date: early 19th century
The Clown Grimaldi Performing on a CartAn illustration of the famous clown Grimaldi (1777-1837) performing, presumably the pantomime " Golden Fish". He is shown in a cart being pulled by dogs
Group of clowns waiting to perform on stage Date: c. 1910
May Day - Clown Entertains Russian CrowdAs part of the 1921 May-Day celebrations in St. Petersburg a deranged looking, pig-riding clown entertains the pleasantly bemused crowds. Date: 1st May 1921
Pinocchio -- with other puppets on stagePinocchio -- The demonstration of warm brotherly affection that Pinocchio received. Date: 1911
Romanian Country Fair, featuring a stage with a clown and a sword swallower or contortionist (?), some prize oxen, drinking and an amusement/pleasure wheel. Date: 1900
Street parade with people in costumeA street parade with people in costume, including big heads
John Hollingshead - 4JOHN HOLLINGSHEAD Writer and impresario, depicted as Clown with Colonel Bateman as Pantaloon. Date: 1827 - 1904
Repeating Pattern - circus clowns perform balancing actRepeating Pattern - three circus clowns performing a balancing act on a blue background. *PLEASE NOTE that the magnifying glass is solely to show the detail of the repeating pattern
One Encore too many - Boy performer collapses backstageOne 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
The Loneliness of Penury - Pierrot upset having gone bustThe Loneliness of Penury - Pierrot upset and woeful having gone bust and been abandoned by society Date: 1911
The Circus Clown anounces the End of the Book. Date: 1895
Two off-work clowns attract attention in a Garrison TownIn 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
The Two Macs - a theatrical comedy act of the London Variety theatres of the late Victorian age. Date: circa 1895
Theatrical JesterPortrait of a Theatrical Jester. Date: 1895
Balistoides conspicillum, clown triggerfishLS Plate 178 from the John Reeves Collection. John Reeves, a 19th Century Tea Inspector, travelled to Canton, China in order to develop a large collection of Chinese natural history drawings
Fractercula arctica, Atlantic puffin, Uria aalge, guillemotPlate 242 from Charles Sigisbert Sonninis Oiseaux, Vol. 62
Sargocentron hastatum, red squirrelfish, Amphiprion perculaPlate 25 by Louis-Isidore Duperrey from his Voyage de la Coquille 1822-1825, Zoologie Atlas, 1826
Topsy Turvy Pirate Ship
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
A clown wearing colorful costume and mask, with wild hair and hat with animal on top, and holding a rattle. Date 18--