ANONYME. - Lot 382

ANONYME. The Barnum & Bailey Greatest Show on Earth. Joie & Jupiter, the Famous Jumper Ponies. Oxford, the Champion-Sauteur. Circa 1902. Lithographic poster. Imprimeurs Courmont Frères Paris. Authorised by The Strobridge Litho Co New-York. Folded, fair condition: small restored tears in the image, one small repaint. Bands with lettering largely redone. Margins redone. 73 x 99 cm "In October 1897, the Barnum & Bailey Circus, with its performers, staff, menagerie and equipment, embarked aboard the Massachusetts bound for Europe. This great voyage was to last several years. The whole operation was housed in 67 20-metre-long wagons....In Paris, Barnum & Bailey presented its show in the Salle des Fêtes of the Galerie des Machines, a vestige of the 1900 Exposition, on the Champ-de-Mars, featuring a multitude of first-rate attractions. The premiere took place on November 30, 1901. The whole of Paris was present, including the family of the President of the Republic, surrounded by a dozen ministers, ambassadors and journalists...Barnum & Bailey played to full houses until the last one, on March 23, 1902." Circus Parade.