The Ricky Jay Collection

The Ricky Jay Collection

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The Darleys | Two Darleys on a bicycle built for one

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October 28, 08:54 PM GMT

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 USD

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The Darleys

The Darley's. Hamburg: Lith Adolph Friedländer, [1910] (no. 4889)


Color lithograph poster on 2 sheets (73 1/4 x 27 3/4 in.; 1862 x 705 mm). Neatly backed, some minor chipping at lower left corner. Framed and glazed with Plexiglas.


The Darleys were a European act who combined juggling with acrobatic cycling. The Spanish periodical Eco Artistico (no. 21, 15 May 1910) identified them as "ciclistas" in Madrid in 1910. A scarce survival of a once popular but now little remembered music-hall act.


REFERENCE:

Exemplars, p. 313

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