Zykes and His Show
Zykes and His Show
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- Description
- This black and white print with tint shows a center tent with banners and a pennant which reads "Zykes." A barker holds the tent flap open as he urges the crowd to come inside. Other people are watching a magician in the foreground. On the left side of the print is a tavern with “…boken” painted on the sign above the door. The background contains a waterfall and buildings on top of a cliff. No information is known about Zykes, the show proprietor.
- This lithograph was produced by the Metropolitan Printing Company and E. Rothengatter. Emil Rothengatter (1848-1939) was a German-born artist and designer of circus posters who worked in cities including Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1896 he won a contest to design the flag of Cincinnati for a work he called “Zero of Burnet Woods.” However, controversy over whether Cincinnati should have a flag delayed the design’s formal adoption until 1940. Emil Rothengatter also wrote a book entitled Art of Poster Making in the United States, published in 1911. He died in New York.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- lithograph
- Object Type
- Lithograph
- Date made
- n.d.
- maker
- Metropolitan Printing Company
- Rothengatter
- place made
- United States: New York, New York City
- depicted
- United States: New Jersey, Hoboken
- Measurements
- image: 15 1/2 in x 20 1/2 in; 39.37 cm x 52.07 cm
- ID Number
- DL.60.3018
- catalog number
- 60.3018
- accession number
- 228146
- Credit Line
- Harry T. Peters "America on Stone" Lithography Collection
- subject
- Drinking
- Children
- Patriotism and Patriotic Symbols
- Architecture, Commercial Buildings
- Circus
- Theater
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- Cultural and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Domestic Furnishings
- Art
- Advertising
- Peters Prints
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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