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Poster

1930s (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Pictorial and typographic advertisement poster. The image shows Bombayo in Cossack-style silk jacket and pantaloons performing on the slack wire.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Printed ink on paper
Brief description
Poster advertising Bertram Mills' Circus and Menagerie featuring Bombayo, the Hindu on the bouncing rope, Tonbridge, 1930s
Physical description
Pictorial and typographic advertisement poster. The image shows Bombayo in Cossack-style silk jacket and pantaloons performing on the slack wire.
Dimensions
  • Poster height: 76.6cm
  • Poster width: 49.9cm
Object history
Associated Production: Bertram Mills' Circus. Performer: Bombayo (slack-wire performer). Botany Fields, High Street, Tonbridge. 11.4.193?-15.4.193?. Performance category: circus, menagerie.
Collection
Accession number
S.137-1994

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Record createdJuly 23, 2010
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