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[Cover of Vanity Fair, Sep. 1925: Circus scene - clown & bareback rider] – Historic Reproduction

[Cover of Vanity Fair, Sep. 1925: Circus scene - clown & bareback rider] — historic image
[Cover of Vanity Fair, Sep. 1925: Circus scene - clown & bareback rider]. Historic image from the Circus & Carnival collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: [Cover of Vanity Fair, Sep. 1925: Circus scene - clown & bareback rider], preserved in this historic image. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Cover of Vanity Fair, Sep. 1925: Circus scene - clown & bareback rider]

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This is a magazine cover rather than a stand-alone artwork: it was made for the September 1925 issue of *Vanity Fair*, the Condé Nast monthly known for pairing sharp social commentary with work by leading illustrators and photographers. Its subject, a clown beside a bareback rider, draws on the traditional circus ring, where riders performing standing or leaping on galloping horses were among the most admired acts of the era. Magazine covers of the 1920s often used such popular entertainments to play on the glamour and spectacle of the day. The record also gives 1927 as a date, so it is worth checking that against the issue itself when researching the cover's origins.

Medium1 item.
Notes1927
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,130 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-123026

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