Tightrope Collection

The Rope Dancer, late 19th century. Creator: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
The Rope Dancer, late 19th century

Le Bate, in or after 1756. Creator: Charles-Germain de Saint-Aubin
Le Bate, in or after 1756

La Danseuse de Corde (The Tight Rope Walker) (Furnishing Fabric), Nantes, 1785 / 90
La Danseuse de Corde (The Tight Rope Walker) (Furnishing Fabric), Nantes, 1785/90. Manufactured by Petitpierre et Cie

Tight-Rope Walker, c. 1885. Creator: Jean Louis Forain
Tight-Rope Walker, c. 1885

Paye qui Tombe: Die eerst valt betaelt de Speelman, die laest, de Kosten (The Fall of the Country: The First That Falls Pays the Player, the Last the Costs).n.d

Plate B from the Disparates : Punctual Folly, ca. 1816-23 (published before 1877)
Plate B from the Disparates :Punctual Folly, ca. 1816-23 (published before 1877)

Plate 77 from The Disasters of War (Los Desastres de la Guerra): May the cord break. (Que se rompe la cuerda.), after 1814-15 (published 1863)

The Monkey and the Leopard (The Monkey), 1818. Creator: Godefroy Engelmann
The Monkey and the Leopard (The Monkey), 1818

Rope Walking, from the Gymnastic Exercises series (N77) for Duke brand cigarettes, 1887

The Rope Dance. Creator: Leonard Defrance
The Rope Dance

Blondin at Shoreditch, 1872. Creator: Gustave Doré
Blondin at Shoreditch, 1872. Charles Blondin French acrobat, walks the tightrope in Shoreditch. From, " LONDON. A Pilgrimage" by Gustave Dore and Blanchard Jerrold. [Grant and Co

The Balance of Power, 1897. Creator: John Leech
The Balance of Power, 1897. An elephant, possibly representing King Charles I of England, balances on a tightrope holding a spear

The Tight-Rope Dancer, 1919. Artist: Mabel Alington Royds
The Tight-Rope Dancer, 1919. From Modern Woodcuts and Lithographs by British and French Artists, by Geoffrey Holme. [The Studio Ltd. London, Paris, New York, 1919]

Southwark Fair, 1733, (1920). Artist: William Hogarth
Southwark Fair, 1733, 1920. From Londoners Then and Now As Pictured By Their Contemporaries, edited by Geoffrey Holme. [The Studio Ltd. London, 1920]

Elephantine Performances, pub. C. 1854 (hand coloured etching)

A Famous Tight-Rope Walker of the Seventeenth Century, 1942. From Fairs, Circuses and Music Halls, by M. Wilson Disher. [Collins, London, 1942]

Interior view of Astleys Amphitheatre in London as it appeared in 1777, (1840). Artist: William Capon
Interior view of Astleys Amphitheatre in London as it appeared in 1777, (1840). Philip Astley was the father of modern circus

Exterior view of Astleys Amphitheatre in London as it appeared in 1777, (1840). Artist: William Capon
Exterior view of Astleys Amphitheatre in London as it appeared in 1777, (1840). Philip Astley was the father of modern circus

Folly Triumphant, 1749. Artist: LP Boitard
Folly Triumphant, 1749. Illustration from Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century... With over two hundred illustrations by George Paston [pseudonym of Emily Morse Symonds], (London, 1905)

Acrobat Exercise, (1885). Illustration from 18th Century Institutions, Usages And Costumes, France 1700-1789, by Paul Lacroix, (Paris, 1885)

Theatre de la Gaite, Niagara Falls, 1892. Artist: Henri Meyer
Theatre de la Gaite, Niagara Falls, 1892. A print from a supplement to the Le Petit Journal, 13th February 1892

A Perilous Passage, 1869. Artist: Joseph Swain
A Perilous Passage, 1869. Napoleon III of France was struggling against a wave of unpopularity at the time. He had introduced a number of measures to try and calm the situation

The Aristocratic Fate at Cremorne, 1858. Terrific Descent Amidst Showers of Water-Works. Here Punch pokes fun at the aristocratic ladies who had arranged a major fete in Cremorne Gardens

Blondin Outdone, 1859. Palmerston, dressed in contemporary circus costume, wheeling a nervous looking Lord John Russell across a tightrope with Niagara Falls in the background

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