Clowns Collection

Tower Circus / Blackpool
Two girls perform tricks while riding a white horse. A clown holds a hoop with a paper surface which one of them has just leapt through

Circus Clown Pointing
A young child, with a hoop decorated with flowers, rides on the back of a skewbald (brown and white) horse, while a clown stands and points

Circus Poster / Paris
A poster for Cirque d ete (Summer circus) in the Champs Elysees, Paris. Open every evening, there are clowns, lions and horses, to name but a few acts

Astleys Amphitheatre
Philip Astleys amphitheatre, Westminster Bridge Road, London : loved by Dickens, this was also the scene of clowns such as Grimaldi, and popular melodrama

Clowns / Victorian Scrap
A clown wearing dungarees with stripey socks

Victorian Scrap showing Circus Performers in a Big Top Circus Ring, including a lady balancing on a performing horse and a clown holding a hoop. Date: circa 1880s

Pierrot clown
Man in fancy dress wearing a pierrot clown outfit with white face soft pointed hat, green neck ruff and pom-poms to the feet

Poster, Robert Brothers Circus, Caernarvon, Wales. circa 1960s

Clown heads on nine Victorian scraps. Date: circa 1890s

Gilbeys Ports advertisement
Bold and striking advertisement for Gilbeys port with two bottles and a glass of their finest helping to make the face of a grinning clown. Date: 1927

Young women in fancy dress costumes
A group of young women dressed in fancy dress costumes preserve the moment for posterity with a photograph in studio. Three are dressed in variations on clown outfits

Cartoon, Fred Evans in clown costume
Cartoon, Fred Evans in his clown costume. He performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London. 1879

British Army Pierrot Troupe - WWI
British Army Pierrot Troupe, from the British Expeditionary Force of 1917 Date: 1917

Clown in American Outfit
A clown wearing an outfit made from stars and stripes fabric (as in the American flag)

Revellers in pierrot costumes at the Chelsea Arts Club Dazzle Ball held at the Albert Hall in March 1919. The theme was inspired by the technique of dazzle painting

Circus poster, Clyde Beatty Cole Bros, USA, the Worlds Largest Circus. 20th century

Poster, Barnum and Bailey, Greatest Show on Earth

Circus Parade Date: 1891

We Care for Nobody, No Not We by Florence Hardy
Delightful postcard featuring three dancing children dressed in clown and Pierrot costumes

Place card, clown with painted face and top hat

Joseph Grimaldi, actor and clown, at Farewell Benefit
Joseph Grimaldi, actor and clown, performing a final song at his Farewell Benefit at Drury Lane Theatre, London, sitting on a chair as he was too weak to stand Date: 1828

Fantasia
A colourful tempera painting depicting a jolly festival of clowns and dancers during the night, bright lanterns are hanging all around. Date: circa 1918

Advert, Mazda light bulbs and lamps
Advert, Mazda Light Bulbs and Lamps, with circus clowns Date: 1952

Clowns and pigs
Early chromolitho postcard from a series of clown illustrations by German illustrator Roick Date: circa 1900

Clowns with ball
Early chromolitho postcard from a series of clown illustrations by German illustrator Roick Date: circa 1900

Illustration, Gravediggers scene, Hamlet
Illustration to the Gravediggers scene in Shakespeare's play, Hamlet (Act. V, Scene I)

Jack Hulbert in Clowns in Clover, Adelphi Theatre, London
Jack Hulbert in Clowns in Clover, Adelphi Theatre, Strand, London, also with Cicely Courtneidge and June. Date: circa 1920s

Acrobats, gymnasts and clown, 1st Hampshire Regiment
Acrobats, gymnasts and clowns - circus troupe 1st Hampshire Regiment of the British Army, c.1900

Songs from Toy-town
Music cover depicting clowns and dolls from toyland. Date: 1930

Victorian scrap, Boy Clown. 19th century

Newest turns at the London Hippodrome 1900
Newest turns at the London Hippodrome in October 1900 - Eugene Sandow, the famous strong man, Ghezzi the clown, the Sisters O Meers, the clever wire artists and M. Batty and his famous bear

Reg Jecks and Vera Vivian Variety Theatre Company
Members of the Reg Jecks and Vera Vivian Variety Theatre Company, performers in clown costumes in a garden at Birkenhead or New Brighton. circa 1909

Circus poster, The Brothers Francki, France. circa 1960s

Jolly clown with a white goose. 20th century

Circus poster with clown and acrobats. 20th century

Circus poster with ringmaster, clowns and acrobats. 20th century

Pickings from the Pantomimes, Judy magazine
Pickings from the Pantomimes, January 1882. 1882

Marys Arithmetic Dream -- Mary hates arithmetic, but then she has a dream which changes her mind about it. (2 of 8) Date: 1950s

Gwen Farrar as a clown in Punch-bowl
Gwen Farrar in motley costume for the role of the clown in Punch-Bowl playing at the Duke of Yorks theatre in 1924. Date: 1924

Mlle. Volet as Cesarine in Les Deux Pierrots, 1845
Mlle. Volet as Cesarine in Les Deux Pierrots by Bayard, Theatre des Varietes, 1845. Handcoloured lithograph after an illustration by Alexandre Lacauchie from Victor Dollets Galerie Dramatique

Female clowns, Nouveau-Cirque, Paris, France
Female clowns at the Nouveau-Cirque, Paris, France. circa 1900

Cover design, clown with Christmas cracker
Cover design, clown blowing through a Christmas cracker. 1937

Poster, Circus Clown

Couple in fancy dress, 1922
A couple in fetching fancy dress; the man in a clown or pierrot costume and a woman in a rather elegant pierrot style jumpsuit with a feathered cap

Clown with three monkeys on a postcard
Guitar-playing clown with three musical monkeys on a postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Clown, woman and dog on a Christmas card
Clown, woman and dog on a three-dimensional Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Clowns smiling face on a movable Christmas card, with verse. circa 1890s

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