Tightrope walking.- Circus.- Valken (J., publisher) La danse sur la Corde; De dans op de koord, twenty vignettes with performers on tightropes, woodcut with stencilled hand-colouring, on thin wove paper, sheet 395 x 315 mm (15 1/2 x 12 1/2 in), minor surface dirt, handling creases, unframed, [circa 1830s]; together with 4 other similar sheets with vignettes of performers, including another sheet of tightrope walking 'Grands Exercices sur la Corde Tendue', a Dutch catchpenny print with various characters and animals, and a reprint of a late 18th century Sadler's Wells print 'Representations of the several Surprizing Performances of the Famous POLANDER, as they are Performed every Evening at Sadlers Wells', woodcuts and wood-engravings, some stencilled hand-colouring, surface dirt and browning, all unframed, mainly 19th century (5)
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