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Tightrope walking

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  • A woman acrobat holding a long stick and walking the tight rope. Watercolour by an Indian artist.
  • Mahomet Caratha, an acrobat. Engraving by R. Graves.
  • A tightrope walker above a clown. Engraving after M. Laroon, 1688.
  • A cartoon-figure called 'Leo' juggles a video, a bottle, a condom, a syringe and a pill box while standing on a tight-rope above a crater against a starry night sky; advertising the 2nd 'Stop AIDS' festival in Mainz, 1990. Colour lithograph by Klaus.
  • Jacob Hall, a tightrope walker. Stipple engraving by E. Scriven, 1810, after J. van Oost.
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    A woman acrobat holding a long stick and walking the tight rope. Watercolour by an Indian artist.

    | Date: [between 1800 and 1899?] | Reference: 576529i
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    A tightrope walker above a clown. Engraving after M. Laroon, 1688.

    Laroon, Marcellus, 1653-1702. | Reference: 3335i
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    Jacob Hall, a tightrope walker. Stipple engraving by E. Scriven, 1810, after J. van Oost.

    Oost, Jacob van, 1600 or 1601-1671. | Date: 1810 | Reference: 325i
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    Mahomet Caratha, an acrobat. Engraving by R. Graves.

    | Reference: 884i
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    A cartoon-figure called 'Leo' juggles a video, a bottle, a condom, a syringe and a pill box while standing on a tight-rope above a crater against a starry night sky; advertising the 2nd 'Stop AIDS' festival in Mainz, 1990. Colour lithograph by Klaus.

    | Date: 1990 | Reference: 673731i
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