Carter, Charles Joseph | Carter the Great cheats the gallows

Carter, Charles Joseph

Carter the Great. Carter Condemned to Death for Witchcraft. Cheats the Gallows. Cleveland: The Otis Lithograph Co., ca. 1926 (no, 4621-M)

Color lithograph poster on 4 sheets joined as 2 (overall ca. 105 x 80 in.). Light fold creases, tiny bit of dampstain at upper left corner, rebacked with linen.

This poster illustrates one of Carter's featured illusions, in which he would disappear from a shroud just as it dropped from a gallows. The background and angry crowd may be a homage to the Chinatown of San Francisco, where Carter lived and where this illusion debuted.