Large 1800s French Cabaret Poster

This scope is unsigned and was acquired from a European collector. It could be American but I'm guessing its not. The eyepiece and turning mechanism are brass. The tube is canvas wra...

1890s-early 1900s by the Donaldson Litho Co. of Newport, KY. "Al G. Field Big Minstrels - Dan Quinlan Poster has inset image of Field in upper left-hand corner. Main image of poster ...

This five foot plus papier mâché pig was used as a fund raiser or trade stimulator. The brass stomach plaque has a coin slot and reads in French... Pu...

175 years ago this was created as a fountain that worked on water and counter weights. The elephant can now be plugged in and runs on dry land using a motor, cables and gears. The he...

This was an estate find and part of a beautiful collection of rare excellent turn of the century posters. They were hidden away for over 100 years. This is a rare and impressive 3 sheet poster that is 7 foot tall. It make quite a statement. About the poster: You'd think that a play called "The New Baby" might feature said child in its promotional material. But here's the thing - there really isn't a baby at the centre of the comedy, and that's the crux of this entertainment. The plot concerns a husband who is so bored with country life that he dreams up the idea of having an illegitimate son in London as a way to get into town for an occasional 'night off'. When his wife decides that the child should be adopted, the expected comic tissue of falsehoods and misunderstandings frays and hilarity ensues. Adapted from German by A. Bourchier, the farce opened in London in 1896 to what a local critic termed 'much mirth'. Several years later, when the play had crossed the Atlantic and entered the repertory of David de Wolf cleverly called the Baby's chaperone on the poster and his troupe of traveling players, that understated review was translated into the more American howling success. The cast and director would've been totally unfamiliar with the British hinterlands, so this splendid design concentrates on the hi-jinks of the characters and their situation. At the start of the 20th century, America was in the full glory of its cultural adolescence, bursting with energy and optimism. In 1900 in New York there were 33 legitimate Broadway theaters...

This is one of the best posters from the 1930s Winslow classroom series. The graphics are Silhouette against a dramatic black background... unique to these posters. Black was used so...

Marcel Marceau was a French actor and mime artist most famous for his stage persona, "Bip the Clown". He referred to mime as the "art of silence" and he performed professionally worl...

Stunning original vintage 1970s French advertising poster for Parisian Cabaret show Paradis Latin - Nuit de Paradis. We love the design by J. M. Fonteneau. The Paradis Latin is a theater at number 28, rue du Cardinal Lemoine, in the Latin Quarter of Paris. It was first built on the rue des Fosses-Saint...

Original vintage French theatre and cabaret poster by René Gruau, 1966 René Gruau was a fashion illustrator whose exaggerated portrayal of fashion d...

Great alternative artwork by Bartosova for the Czech first-year-of-release film poster for Cabaret. Actual mobie poster size is 11 x 15 1/4 inches. Vintage poster in near mint con...

Arguably one of the most iconic Polish film posters. Bold, striking, confrontational and about as avant-garde a design as you could ever get. The end of the Second World War marked the dawn of a new period in the development of Polish poster art, which became known as the Polish School of Posters...

Original Japanese film poster for Bob Fosse's 1972 Classic musical starring Liza Minnelli, Michael York and Joel Grey. This poster is unfolded and conservation linen backed it would...