Poster
ca. 1930 (made)
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Pictorial and typographic. Miss Quincy, wearing a bathing suit standing in the foreground, as if on the top of a rock. Behind her to the right we see an audience in a circus ring watching Miss Quincy diving gracefully from an extremely long ladder (topped with a flag printed with the name 'Quincy') into a particularly small container of water which appears to be about 3 feet deep! Miss Quincy's trajectory from the ladder is emphasised by a black dotted line from the top of the ladder to the centre of the tub of water.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Printed ink on paper |
| Brief description | Poster advertising the diving performer Miss Quincy 'La Venus de l'Air, Championne Americaine Plongeons Sensationnels dans un bassin de 1.50m de profondeur'. Printed by Richier-Laugier, Paris, c.1930. Larry Turnbull Collection. |
| Physical description | Pictorial and typographic. Miss Quincy, wearing a bathing suit standing in the foreground, as if on the top of a rock. Behind her to the right we see an audience in a circus ring watching Miss Quincy diving gracefully from an extremely long ladder (topped with a flag printed with the name 'Quincy') into a particularly small container of water which appears to be about 3 feet deep! Miss Quincy's trajectory from the ladder is emphasised by a black dotted line from the top of the ladder to the centre of the tub of water. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Permanent European Address / Dr. T. Jay Quincy / care Pall-Mall Forwarding Co / Carlton Steet, Regent Street, SW1 / London, England' (Stamped verso.) |
| Object history | Associated Production: Bertram Mills Circus. Performer: Miss Quincy. Producer: T. Jay Quincy. ca. 1930. Performance category: circus, diving, speciality act. Mills Circus used acts they found abroad, and many of these sent Mills examples of their own poster illustrating their acts, such as this one. The poster notes that Miss Quincy was presented by her brother, T. Jay Quincy. |
| Production | 31-33 Rue du General Beuret. Designer name: McTe[?] |
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| Accession number | S.244-1998 |
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| Record created | August 3, 2010 |
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