Aug 01, 2001 - Sale 1903

Sale 1903 - Lot 2

Price Realized: $ 690
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
THE BARNUM & BAILEY GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH / IMRE KIRALFY'S COLUMBUS. 1891.

29 3/4x39 1/4 inches. Strobridge, Cincinnati.
Condition B+: minor losses along vertical fold; restoration and creases in margins.
A "tumultuous" scene "before the walls of Granada. The Moors preparing to defend their city against the Spaniards", in red, yellow, brown, green, blue and orange. An advertisement for one of the extravagant, exotic, historical tableauxs which early circuses used to present.