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29 MOUNTED PRINTS of a GERMAN CIRCUS TROUPE Rare Illustrations CIRCUS RENZ 1887

HINTER DEN COULISSEN CIRCUS RENZ (BEHIND THE SCENES of CIRCUS RENZ) 1887.

29 ILLUSTRATED PLATES tipped onto 26 card mounts, all loosely held in a cloth covered folder. The drawings are by Christian Wilhelm Allers. The prints were produced by F.A. Dahlstrom, Hamburg, Germany, 1887.

Most of the plates are 6.25x8.25 inches, with the first plate measuring 8x10.5 inches and the 6 smaller plates measuring 4.5x5.75 inches. The plates are all tipped onto 9.5x12.75 inch card mounts. The mounted prints are loose and held in a 10x13 inch folder.

Published in Hamburg Germany by F.A. Dahlstrom, circa 1887.

The drawings by C. W. Allers provide a behind-the-scenes look at life in the German Renz circus. Circus fashions, performers, training techniques, children, circus gadgetry, musicians, clowns, trapeze artists, etc., are all drawn in an intimate and telling way, The drawings are all signed and dated 1887 in the plate (i.e. printed).

Condition: The folder holding the prints is well-worn, splitting at the spine folds, rubbed and faded, with inner folding wings that are splitting at the folds (one almost loose). One of the 26 cardboard mounts has tears to its lower left corner and left margin that have been repaired with clear tape (not affecting the tipped-on prints), otherwise the mounts just have some toning and light foxing to their edges, and the 29 plates are all clear and bright. Each mounted image is suitable for framing, imho.

Circus Life in Germany in 1887.

About the CIRCUS RENZ (from Wikipedia):

******Circus Renz was a German circus company. It was established in 1842 in Berlin by Ernst Jakob Renz, b.1815 d.1892, as Circus Olympic and existed until 1897. The company had several stationary buildings in Berlin, Hamburg, Bremen, Breslau and Vienna. Ernst Renz' son Franz had to close the company in 1897 due to financial difficulties. In 1940, Ernst Renz' great-nephew, Bernhard Renz, re-established a touring circus under the family name. When he died in 2012, he was the oldest recorded circus director at the age of 91. His descendants continue to lead their own circuses, carrying the Renz name.******

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