Vintage Illustrations and Posters

A selection of historical advertisements and playful illustrations, reflecting cultural themes and fashion trends from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The hobble waltz-the dance of the season. The hazards of dancing in a fashionable hobble skirt, shown here gathered in at the knee. The two couples in the foreground avoid disaster on the dance floor by making sure their menfolk do not cut the strings on their dancing pumps, thus impeding their gait too. Date: 1911

Advertisement in The Moving Picture World for the American film serial The Grip of Evil (1916)

The hobble waltz-the dance of the season. The hazards of dancing in a fashionable hobble skirt, shown here gathered in at the knee. The two couples in the foreground avoid disaster on the dance floor by making sure their menfolk do not cut the strings on their dancing pumps, thus impeding their gait too. Date: 1911

Spotparts on busks has as Figaro, 1886, 1886 print Cartoon on Conrad Busken Huet as Figaro, the barber of Seville. Plaat appeared at the Weekblad De Nederlandsche Spectator, no. 15, 1886. print maker: Netherlandsprinter: The Haguepublisher: The Hague paper

French satirical Illustration, showing a domestic fight between a man and an angry woman 1908

Albert Guillaume. "The North Pole, 18 rue de Clichy". Color lithography. 1880-1900. Paris, Carnavalet museum. 74198-14 18 rue de Clichy, poster, the north pole, color lithography, ice skate, skating, skating, rink, couple

Oliver Scotts Refined Negro Minstrels, a happy lot of funny coons in myriad acts entrancing, new jokes and gags by black buffoons, the best of songs and dancing. C1898.

Red Album (3rd Serie): Maurice Bertrand, Ravault Gerard A Hunter from Maxim's, Gypsy Rigaud SEM (1863-1934). "Red album (3rd series): Maurice Bertrand, Ravault G�rard A hunter from Maxim's, Gypsy Rigaud". Color Lithography, 1901.

Paul Kruger offering "Dum-dum" pills to Queen Victoria. Colour lithograph by E. Ogé, ca. 1900.

French satirical Illustration, showing a run on the bank as panicked savers demand their cash. 1908

Design for a cartoon on Tsar Nicolaas II of Russia and the Duma, Henricus, 1906 drawing A man in uniform is behind a puppet show and plays a performance with two dolls. A doll with the name 'Nicolaus II' drops a shelf on the head of a doll named 'Duma'. chalk puppet and marionette show. political caricatures and satires

Ah! Ah! I take you, Mossy! ......... / (32)

Ruijs de Beerenbrouck as Charlie Chaplin, 1923, Patricq Kroon, 1923 drawing Charles Ruijs de Beernbrouck falls as Charlie Chaplin in a bucket of water. Following the rejecting of its draft cinema law in 1923. Design for a political cartoon. Netherlands paper pen political caricatures and satires. clown

Cartoon - A Hot Time Rostap (1866-1949)

Ms, Marie Wilt, Director Franz von Jauner eagerly catches the grades of the farewell song of singer Marie Wilt title page of Humoristic Leaves , Karl Klic -, Caricaturist, Karl Klic -, realization

Ziegler and Wolter , The actresses Charlotte Wolter and Clara Ziegler deal with children title page of Der Floh , Georges Lafosse -, Caricaturist, Johann Tomassich, realization

The Redhead Moon / Second Year - N ° 100 / Sunday November 3rd 1878 / International Lottery of the Redhead Moon, by Gill.

Séguin, F., ambulating singers and musicians; Two trumpeters (dummy title), 1895. Pierre Noire, watercolor. Carnavalet museum, history of Paris. Two trumpeters, hat on the head, playing the music

Th. Robert-Houdin, the pink nest, the tour of Japan Charles L�vy after Ferdinandus. "Robert-Houdin Theater, the pink nest, the tour of Japan". Lithograph, 1880-1900.

The small moon / n ° 35 / a joke.

Winter Alcazar, 10 Faubg. Fishniere, every night at 7 o'clock 1/2, show-concert Sundays & Fetimes day concert Lévy, Emile. "Winter Alcazar, 10 Faubg. Fishniere, every night at 7 hours 1/2, show-concert Sundays & Fests day concert". Color lithography. Between 1880-and-1900.

Director Laube and President Schey, After the General Assembly of the City Theater Directorate, Director Heinrich Laube and President Friedrich Freiherr Schey von Koromla are in the arms title page of Humorist Leaf after the general assembly of the city theater directorate - , Caricaturist, Angerer , Göschl, Realization

China/USA: 'Li Hung-Chang visits Hogan's Alley'. Popular cartoon by Richard Felton Outcault (14 January 1863 - 25 September 1928) in the World Comic Weekly, Sunday 13 September, 1896.

Cartoon on arms exhibition in Amsterdam, 1869, 1869 print Cartoon on the weapon exhibition in Amsterdam. Death from his pleasure at the exhibition. Plaat appeared at the Weekblad De Nederlandsche Spectator, no. 20, 1869. print maker: Netherlandsprinter: Netherlandspublisher: Arnhempublisher: The Hague paper Death as skeleton. trade exhibition, industries fair. weapons Amsterdam

A man in a policeman's uniform is pointing with a large truncheon at a man with a tankard under the arch, two black cats on the wall look startled. Coloured process print.

Cartoon - The Uprising Rostap (1866-1949)

Polonaise, c. 1899 - in or before 1952 print Six musicians walked in a circle: four wind instruments, an accordionist and a drummer. paper. printing ink brass band, street band

Album "The Turf" by SEM; Captain Maurice Caillaud and Mr. Tracy SEM (1863-1934). "Album" The Turf "by SEM - Captain Maurice Caillaud and Mr. Tracy". Color lithography.

H.S. (Monogram), Folies Bergere/ Every evening (registered title (letter)), 1880. Color lithography. Carnavalet museum, history of Paris. Advertising, coffee-concert, music hall, Paris, 9th arrondissement, circus, taming, dressage, wild beasts, shooter, in high soldiers and young women kissing, in the background crowds of peasants armed with forks pursuing them, below The shooter will go Paine and his partner (cf. Caraff00710), the colonel D. Boone tamper and his partner Miss Carlotta in the middle of lions (cf. Caraff00658)

Night scene in a Roman street, with noble woman Messalina carried on a sedan chair attended by gladiator, fan-bearer, and slaves. Colour printed illustration by Auguste Leroux from Felicien Champsaur's novel L'Orgie Latine (Roman Orgy), Fasquelle, Paris, 1903.

Mr. Pecksniff.. Cigarette cards, Trade cards. George Arents Collection. Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870

Police officer and pastor as puppets. Cartoon in which a police officer and a pastor as puppets hang over a crowd workers. On the left the policeman with helmet, sword and code under the left arm; On the right the pastor with a devout and a sad mask in his hands. Among them a crowd of people who look at their eyes and some of which lifted hands.

Album Tangoville-sur-Mer - "The Cake Walk" is James Hyde, a foot in New York and the other in Paris and Carlos Louro, holding a ticket basket, explains "Ye does not dance El Tango"; Mr. Landeau looks at him SEM (Georges Goursat, says - 1863-1934) / Saud� Jean. "Album Tangoville-sur-Mer -" The Cake Walk "is James Hyde, one foot in New York and the other in Paris and Carlos Louro, holding a ticket basket, explains" Y� does not dance Qu� El Tango "; Mr. Landeau looks at him ". Color lithography.

A scene from 'A Cuckoo in the Nest', a popular farce playing in London in 1925. Here, the impeccable husband is discovered by his wife and in-laws in a lady's bedroom (equally impeccable) at an hour which is difficult to explain... Names, left to right, Ralph Lynn, Yvonne Arnaud, Grace Edwin, Mary Brough, Tom Walls, Roger Livesey, and Enda Mason. Date: 1925

Portada de la revista satírica "El Lliri Blanc", nº 1, editada en Barcelona, 24 marzo 1934. Author: Valentí Castanys Borrás.

Kinder-velt, Vol. 2, no. 1-2, Front cover. World Socialist Union of Jewish Workers,Po'alei Zion. text. Magazine covers. 1931-01 - 1931-02. Dorot Jewish Division. Jewish children , United States

Charles Lévy. Poster, Parisian cabaret, clown, entertainment, folies-bergere, the two roosters, color lithography, number

Swing, Cartoon

Mabel's Lovers, Vintage Film Posters

If you're a perfect gent, Flagg Cartoons, Life Cartoons Flagg, James Montgomery, 1877-1960. still image. Postcards. 1905 - 1930. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

A WILD AFFAIR ! Date: circa 1908

Sheet music Mes moutons by Charles Quinel and Marcel Legay, performed by Mévisto. Dimensions: 27 cm x 17.7 cm. Museum: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.

Session in the Schwager Bierhaus , Caricature on the debate about the establishment of a German fleet in the National Assembly in Frankfurt , Unknown

Judge Magazine: The Big 4 Split, Judge Magazine

Colored lithograph around 1900 depicting circus artists, showing performers, costumes, acrobatics, and stage elements.

If you get gay, Flagg Cartoons, Life Cartoons Flagg, James Montgomery, 1877-1960. still image. Postcards. 1905 - 1930. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Stoves, ranges & furnaces. New Hub Range. Boy - What is the hubbub Man - It is the "Hub" bub! Boy - It is what hubub Man - Why the "New Hub" bub!. Stoves, ranges & furnaces. New Hub Range. Boy - What is the hubbub Man - It is the "Hub" bub! Boy - It is what hubub Man - Why the "New Hub" bub!

The staff of a Fleet Street newspaper or magazine, feel the pressure of work as the spectre of a censor brandishing scissors looms over them during World War One. Date: 1919

Alfred Choubrac (1853-1902). "Hippodrome, Dwarfs (blue mod.)". Lithography, 1880-1900. Paris, Carnavalet museum. 55171-12 Comic, hippodrome, lithography, dwarf, navism, equestrian scene, zipline

Man with an artificial dance partner, used as an aid to learning dance moves. Please note: Credit must appear as Courtesy of the estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/ILN/Mary Evans 1925

The Don Quixote. N ° 804 // Mr. ZOLA and the Academy

Flower fairies of wild thyme, Thymus serpyllum, as a Harlequin clown with mask, scythe and hourglass, and deadly nightshade, Atropa belladonna, as a ghoul or specter with poison berries. Chromolithograph after an illustration by Walter Crane from A Flower Wedding, Cassell, London, 1905.

Hundreds of Christians sacrificed to the lions in a Roman circus, or an artless Hetacomb. Colour printed illustration by Auguste Leroux from Felicien Champsaur's novel L'Orgie Latine (Roman Orgy), Fasquelle, Paris, 1903.

The red-haired moon / third year - N ° 142 / Sunday 24 August 1879 / Parliament holidays, by Gill.

Fame, wealth, love... all for the price of an absinthe. Date: 1908

Green Album: The Champeaux Brothers SEM (1863-1934). "Green Album: The Champeaux Brothers". Lithograph in color, 1901.

Grock (1880 - 1959), born Charles Adrien Wettach. Swiss clown. 1923

The Mad Hatter Postcard by K. Nixon. ca. 1925-1930, 'The Mad Hatter came with a cup in one hand and a piece of bread and butter in the other.'

A New Baby Greetings postcard, featuring Dr Stork, who has just delivered a little bundle of joy. "May All Your Troubles Be Little Ones" !!! Date: 1905

Album sem at the blue sea: Ciro's Bar SEM (Georges Goursat, says - 1863-1934) / Saud� Jean. "Album Sem at the Blue Sea: Ciro's Bar". Color lithography.

French satirical Illustration, depicting a duel between the establishment and the working masses 1908

Caricature of a figure who collects signatures during a concert, V. Michel, 1898 print. magazine Print is part of a folding leaf. Paris paper political caricatures and satires. caricatures (human types). the arts of the stage: ballet, theatre, musical drama, motion picture

Come see the one and only one! Go music ...

Bismarck, Andrassy, Bratiano as a diplomatic street singer title page of Die Bomb, László frecskay -, caricaturist

Portada de la revista humorística ¡Cu-Cut!, editada en Barcelona, marzo de 1907.

This color print around 1900 depicts two kockabouts, showing performers in comedic or acrobatic poses and interaction between figures.

Scenes of life aboard a passenger liner crossing the Atlantic in the 1920s, with the focus on the passengers attempting the dance the Charleston while the ship lurches. Date: 1927

The Bossche carnival abolished, Willy Sluiter, in or before 1917 print Cartoon on the abolition of the carnival party in Den Bosch. A devil -like figure with a goatee and a hairy tail decreases a mask. Under the show the inscription: "The devil: - They wanted to abolish me, as if I wasn't eternal, with or without a mask! paper letterpress printing Carnival, Shrovetide (non-liturgical celebration). human-shaped devil

Da Prince, Johann Fürst, folk singer, theater director and writer title page of Kikeriki , Unknown

Magic poster - Fakir of Ava

Illustration by Delon Grave; a circus master holds a chain attached to a large politician's nose.

Valtman portrays Fidel Castro, towering above small figures who represent Cuba and Brazil. As Castro advises Brazil to have a communist revolution, Brazil looks back in puzzlement. Brazil was facing the economic challenge of debt and a crisis of leadership when President Janio Quadros resigned on August 25th.

Miss Leona Dare, Miss Leona Dare, Anton Langer, Eduard Mautner, Balance Act title page of Die Bomb , László frecskay -, caricaturist

Color print by an anonymous artist depicting a carnival or circus poster with blank spaces, created around 1900, showing promotional design and visual layout.

Green Album of HE: Arthur Meyer, Couple Catullo Mendes, Leoneto Capiello, Francis de Groiss and Paul Hervieu, Writer of the French Academy Sem (1863-1934). "Gert albans: arthur meyer, le coule does M�dnes," layo Ictoire, Francis De Criestet and Paul Hervieu to the acad�mie Franca. Lithograph in couleur. Paris, carnavalet Mus�e.

STANLEY LUPINO British entertainer in musical comedy, seen here with Odette Myrtil in 'Dover Street to Dixie' 1893 - 1942

Number 8, Caught on the Fly, from the Tricks with Cards series (N138) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco 1887 Issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. Trade cards from the "Tricks with Cards" series (N138), issued in a numbered set of 24 cards in 1887 by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco.. Number 8, Caught on the Fly, from the Tricks with Cards series (N138) issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. to promote Honest Long Cut Tobacco. 1887. Commercial color lithograph. Issued by W. Duke, Sons & Co. (New York and Durham, N.C.)

The skaters club. (IT)

"Hello Bill!!!", Political Cartoon featuring U.S. President William Howard Taft coming from the White House, Carrying Golf Club, and Shaking hands with Crippled "Tariff Bill", Judge Magazine, July 31, 1909

Trio met drum, c. 1899 - in or before 1952 print Three musicianing men: a drummer, an accordionist and a man with harmonica. paper. printing ink small group of musicians, chamber orchestra, jazz band

Wagner in Vienna, A music gray game, Richard Wagner in Vienna, including with Franz Jauner caricature sequence with text, pictures, from Der Floh , Theodor Zasche -, Caricaturist

For the best summer bargains go to Frears Bazaar.. For the best summer bargains go to Frears Bazaar.

Kompoozycja do Programu le Theartre Libre, Do Sztuki Les Fossils F. de Cure'la Album E. Maundron The illustrious programs of theaters and concert caves. Menus, invitation cards, small prints, etc. Ibels, Henri Gabriel (1867 1936), Maindron, Ernest (1838 1908)

The New Magnetic Quicksand Deck Chair, a simple but reliable device which enables one to sit on the most treacherous sands with perfect immunity Please note: Credit must appear as Courtesy of the estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/ILN/Mary Evans Date: 1927

Cartoon, Kaiser Wilhelm and Charlot (Charlie Chaplin). The Kaiser, dressed as a clown, has asked Charlot to crown him emperor of the world. In response, Charlot hammers the crown onto the Kaiser's head, with the sharp point facing downwards. (2 of 2) Date: 1917

Harlequin and Pierrot; Au clair de la lune; Nouvelle Imagerie d'Epinal. Harlekijn stands in front of the door of Pierrot, who pretends to be at home. Under the show a caption in French in four columns. Numbered at the top right: No. 929.

For the best summer bargains go to Frears Bazaar.. For the best summer bargains go to Frears Bazaar.

CHARLIE CHAPLIN in A DOG'S LIFE (1918), directed by CHARLIE CHAPLIN.

Scene from theatrical performance. unknown, graphic artist

Float for the fatted ox festival, Palais de l'Industrie, Paris, 1897. Artist: Henri Meyer

Stoves, ranges & furnaces. New Hub Range. Boy - What is the hubbub Man - It is the 'Hub' bub! Boy - It is what hubub Man - Why the 'New Hub' bub! , Boys, Men, Stoves, 19th Century American Trade Cards

Olga Precheisen and Ritter Mosenthal, Olga Lewinsky- Precheisen as Gretchen, Salomon Hermann von Mosenthal as a native Faust, in the background Josefine Gallmeyer as Martha Schwerdtlein and Heinrich Laube as Mephisto title page of Der Floh , Karl Klic , Caricaturist, Johann Tomassich, realization

Cover of Parisian Newspaper Le Petit Journal, Featuring December 30, 1903 Fire at Chicago's Iroquois Theater, Paris France, January 17, 1904

Magic poster - Biggest Necromantic Exposition on Earth Blackstone Colossal Combination

A color poster from around 1900 depicting Evans & Hoey's parlor match featuring the Monte Carlo Boys and William Hoey, illustrating early 20th-century entertainment.

Folies-Bergere, a lunch on the grass Printing A. Call. Shepherdess Follies.

Folder of music magazine La Terror de Grannelle with two women and man in brothel and French text; La terror de Grannelle. Folder of music magazine La Terror de Grenelle with two women and a man. The sheet music and text of the song are printed on the inside of the double-folded sheet.

The review of the opening of Pygmalion at His Majesty's Theatre. A Bernard Shaw production. Date: 01/04/1914

Christmas advert for Columbia Gramophones, 1929. Artist: Unknown

Circus Austria , Circus Austria , and a, With Kuranda, Skene, Greuter, Jirecek etc, caricature with text from Der Floh , Karl Klic -, Caricaturist, Johann Tomassich, realization

Abdulla No 7 cigarette advert using the suggestio of aplay on the film titled 'All this and Heaven too' 1940 American drama film made by Warner Bros

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