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Achille Philion/An Attraction Without a Parallel. 1899.
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Achille Philion/An Attraction Without a Parallel. 1899.
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PAI-XXXIX: Rare Posters
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Size: 43 x 29 3/4 in./109.2 x 75.7 cm
Condition: B+Slight tears at vertical fold and edges.
Printer: Courier, Buffalo
Reference: Ref: PAI-XIX, 145
Achille Philion/An Attraction Without a Parallel. 1899.
The spiral ball walk act was a dangerous and physically demanding presentation that was brought to new heights by LaRoche in the 1880s and ‘90s. “When the then small-time circus entrepreneurs, the Ringling Brothers, played Chicago for the first time in 1895, Philion was hired as an additional attraction to generate publicity and draw spectators. The globe-walker moved up a fifty-foot spiral, then out onto a long cable roadway and finally descended amid an elaborate shower of fireworks” (Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women, by Ricky Jay, pp. 204-205). And this is a first-rate lithograph more than up to the task of successfully and accurately promoting the daredevil performer.
Size: 43 x 29 3/4 in./109.2 x 75.7 cm
Condition: B+Slight tears at vertical fold and edges.
Printer: Courier, Buffalo
Reference: Ref: PAI-XIX, 145
Achille Philion/An Attraction Without a Parallel. 1899.
The spiral ball walk act was a dangerous and physically demanding presentation that was brought to new heights by LaRoche in the 1880s and ‘90s. “When the then small-time circus entrepreneurs, the Ringling Brothers, played Chicago for the first time in 1895, Philion was hired as an additional attraction to generate publicity and draw spectators. The globe-walker moved up a fifty-foot spiral, then out onto a long cable roadway and finally descended amid an elaborate shower of fireworks” (Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women, by Ricky Jay, pp. 204-205). And this is a first-rate lithograph more than up to the task of successfully and accurately promoting the daredevil performer.
