$45.00
This antique Parisian photo postcard depicts the English clown George Footit. Dimensions are 5.5" x 3.5".
Thank you to www.victorian-cinema.net for the information on Footit.
They write:
English clown Footit (sometimes spelled Foottit, or Footitt), real name George Tudor Hall, born in Manchester in 1864, trained as an equestrian acrobat with his father's circus, and by 1880 his appearances with Sanger's Circus established him as a leading horseback clown.
Footit was featured in the Parisian Le Nouveau Cirque, which is written on this photo along with the printed S.I.P.-- the Société Industrielle de Photographie.
According to www.rosspostcards.com, the S.I.P. "was a major French company engaged in the photographic and paper industry during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Its headquarters and factories were established in Rueil in the Seine-et-Oise section of Paris."
They continue, "The Reutlinger studios produced photos of popular stage performers as well as other prominent social figures. These photos were extensively issued in postcard format, many of them by the Société Industrielle de Photographie in France.* These S.I.P. postcards are the subject of this catalog.
The catalog entries are presented by series number where the series was predominantly comprised of Reutlinger's photos. A second sort of the catalog is provided by the first initial of the performer's last name. Where a name includes de, d', la, or le, it is sorted by the first initial of the word after the de, d', etc. As an example, Cléo de Mérode is listed in the M's."
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