Author: Chiarini's Circus.
Title: Chiarini's Circus and Menagerie. Complete Congress of Wonders and Marvels.
Description: n.p. 1887 (Meiji 20). Lithograph(?) kawaraban style poster or handbill 27x35cm. Rather good. I find it hard to tell the difference between a woodcut and lithograph when they are unevenly inked and printed. ¶ Chiarini's circus spent months in Japan in 1886 and 1887 and the Emperor saw his first circus. And being true royalty he was generous in his appreciation, not like a certain modern bunch who will reward with a handshake and have their accountant bill the nation for new gloves. Chiarini's was the circus for much of India, south east and east Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Latin and South America. They were indefatigable travellers. I gather it was the scale of the spectacle, the horse riders and the animals that enraptured the Japanese; they already had plenty of great acrobats. I read somewhere that the first Japanese given official permission to leave the country were acrobats snapped up by the canny Richard Risley whose circus had been allowed into Japan in 1864 but no further than Yokohama. In this poster the stars are hard at work and are identified.
Keywords: graphic art performing arts circus Asia Japan c19th advertising progress reform
Title: Chiarini's Circus and Menagerie. Complete Congress of Wonders and Marvels.
Description: n.p. 1887 (Meiji 20). Lithograph(?) kawaraban style poster or handbill 27x35cm. Rather good. I find it hard to tell the difference between a woodcut and lithograph when they are unevenly inked and printed. ¶ Chiarini's circus spent months in Japan in 1886 and 1887 and the Emperor saw his first circus. And being true royalty he was generous in his appreciation, not like a certain modern bunch who will reward with a handshake and have their accountant bill the nation for new gloves. Chiarini's was the circus for much of India, south east and east Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Latin and South America. They were indefatigable travellers. I gather it was the scale of the spectacle, the horse riders and the animals that enraptured the Japanese; they already had plenty of great acrobats. I read somewhere that the first Japanese given official permission to leave the country were acrobats snapped up by the canny Richard Risley whose circus had been allowed into Japan in 1864 but no further than Yokohama. In this poster the stars are hard at work and are identified.
Keywords: graphic art performing arts circus Asia Japan c19th advertising progress reform
Price: AUD 550.00 = appr. US$ 380.53 Seller: Richard Neylon, Bookseller
- Book number: 11023
- Book number: 11023