Trapeze Collection

The Promenade Percies
A motorcycle acrobat troupe called The Promenade Percies practise their act involving balance on a trapeze attached to the bike

Trapeze / Upside Down
From the trapeze; how the acrobat sees his audience - upside down!

Acrobates - acrobats
A delightful illustration from Larousse Encyclopedia detailing a variety of acrobatic entertainers performing impressive physical feats. Date: 1930

Iron jaw act
Unidentified iron jaw act. The performer held one end of a leather strap with their teeth while the other end of the strap had a hook which was attached to a trapeze or, in this case

The original 3 Nock Sisters, Berlin, 1920s
The original 3 Nock Sisters, from the Scala and Wintergarten, Berlin, 1920s Date: 1920s

United States Air Force - Republic YRF-84F Thunderstreak 49-2430 FICON parasite, at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, seen with the retractable nose hook extended

United States Air Force North American T-6G Texan 50-1279, buzz-number TA-279, (msn 168-443), at the USAF Museum storage compound at Wright-Patterson AFB, OH

Music cover, The Man on the Flying Trapeze, song waltz, words by George Leybourne, music by Alfred Lee, performed by Shaw and Weston. 1934

The New Zazel Valse by Charles Dubois
Promotional music sheet for The New Zazel Valse by Charles Dubois, circa 1877. Zazel was the first artiste to be shot from a cannon, and was also a trapeze artist and tight rope walker

Romah Waltz, by James Coward
Promotional music sheet for the Romah Waltz of 1874 by James Coward. We can only assume that Romah was the stage name of an acrobat as he is seen here flying over the Crystal Palace where he

The Farini Waltzes, by R Coote
Promotional music sheet for The Farini Waltzes of circa 1860s by R. Coote. The Great Farini (real name William Leonard Hunt) was famous as a trapeze artist

Boeing XB-29G Superfortress 44-84043, General Electric engine test-bed with a J47 in the bomb-bay mounted retractable trapeze at Schenectady County Airport, NY

Air National Guard - Republic RF-84K Thunderflash (FICON) 52-7265 of the Michigan Air National Guard. Note the canted tailplanes to clesr the structure of the B-36 mother-ship when carried

Trapezist Makes Catch Date: 1950

Jack Buchanan in The Flying Trapeze, Alhambra Theatre
Jack Buchanan in a musical play, The Flying Trapeze, at the Alhambra Theatre, Leicester Square, London

The E Floretty Trio - German Entertainers
The E Floretty Trio - German Acrobatic Entertainers. A popular Trapeze Circus Act. Date: circa 1910s

Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri
TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, Henri de (1864-1901). Trapeze artist getting dressed. 1890. Post-Impressionism. Drawing. FRANCE. MIDI-PYRɎ Ʌ S. TARN. Albi. Toulouse-Lautrec Museum

William Hanlon. Zampillaerostation or the flying trapeze

Three acrobats doing balancing act on a high wire
Three acrobats doing a balancing act on a high wire in the open air

Happy Families Playing Cards - Miss Strong the Weight Lifters Daughter. circa 1930s

Music cover, The Man on the Flying Trapeze, song in waltz time, words by George Leybourne, music by Alfred Lee, featured by the BBC Dance Orchestra directed by Henry Hall. 1934

Disraeli / Acrobat / Leotard
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Dizzy in acrobats costume pretends to fall, only to end up on his feet: he will not resign after political defeat Date: 13 June 1868

Lulu Waltz by Charles Coote Junior - Music Sheet Cover. Lulu, the female trapeze artist formerly known as the boy acrobat El Nino Farini, who was actually Sam Wasgate (1855-1939)

Lighter side of Life on an Armed Liner, WW1 by Arthur Watts
Sketches of scenes on board an armed liner during the First World War by the artist Arthur Watts who was in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve

A McDonnell XP-85 Goblin approaching modified B-29B-65-BA for hook-up to a trapeze lowered from the rear bomb-bay

Five male trapeze artists performing at a circus. Date c1890

Male and female trapeze performers. Date c1875

The great Wallace shows An innovation in aerialism, the triple revolving trapeze of the sisters Vortex.... Circus poster showing the Vortex sisters performing their trapeze act. Date c1898

Descente d Absalon par Miss Stena. Circus poster shows a group of aerialists performing. Two women are held aloft by a balloon attached to their hair

Christmas Time is Circus Time by H. L. Oakley
A lovely silhouette cut out showing a jolly circus scene including horses, clowns, seals, tigers jumping through hoops, performing dogs and monkeys, an elephant and trapeze artists

May it Go With a Swing by Rojan
A Christmas Card wish on the front cover of The Bystander featuring an illustration of a circus scene with a guitar playing clown in the foreground

Trapeze Man / Music Sheet
The legendary man on the flying trapeze: except for the fact that hes safely on the ground in this picture

Lady of the Lions / Fair
T.Allens Lady of The Lions sideshow at a fair

Trapeze Artiste / J De C
The trapeze artist standing on her trapeze

Show Must Go On
She has fallen from the trapeze - she may never perform again - perhaps her back is broken - but the show must go on !

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