Not currently on display at the V&A

Poster

1934 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Pictorial and typographic hanging card. The image shows The Great Wallendas on a high wire high above the circus ring.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Printed ink on card
Brief description
Hanging card advertising Bertram Mills' Circus and Menagerie, featuring The Great Wallendas, Sheffield, 1934
Physical description
Pictorial and typographic hanging card. The image shows The Great Wallendas on a high wire high above the circus ring.
Dimensions
  • Poster height: 40.3cm
  • Poster width: 30.4cm
Object history
Associated Production: Bertram Mills' Circus. Company: The Great Wallendas. Hillsborough Park, Sheffield. 10.9.1934-10.9.1934. Performance category: circus. The performance is advertised as taking place: 'positively ten days only'
Subject depicted
Collection
Accession number
S.164-1994

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Record createdJuly 23, 2010
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