A flying visit by Servais Le Roy – Vintage Wall Art
![A flying visit by Servais Le Roy, London, S.E. : Denmark Works, [ca. 1890] — vintage poster](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/e4/e4a6ecd48ff5-L.webp)
(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: A flying visit by Servais Le Roy, preserved in this vintage poster. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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A flying visit by Servais Le Roy
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A flying visit" is a pun on the levitation illusions that Servais Le Roy, a Belgian-born magician born in 1865, performed in Britain around 1890. Posters like this one were pasted on hoardings and in shop windows to draw audiences to his shows. The piece was printed in color by Denmark Works, a London lithographic firm, and its bold, crowded style reflects how theatrical advertising was produced in that period. Note how the design promises a spectacle larger than the stage it was meant to fill.
| Created / published | London, S.E. : Denmark Works, [ca. 1890] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 45 x 27 cm. |
| Genre | Denmark Works |
| Notes | Edward Weller |
| Subjects | LeRoy, Servais,--1865-1953. Magic. Magicians. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,701 × 3,802 px · prints to 16 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-219532 |
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