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  • Girl acrobats forming the shape of an elephant at the circus of Srīrangam. Gouache, 18--.
  • Girl acrobats forming the shape of a horse at the circus of Srīrangam. Gouache, 18--.
  • Five young women and a young man, posing in acrobats' costume, in a photographic studio.
  • Four acrobats along with two dancing girls and a musician. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • Mexico: acrobats dressed as eagles fly around a pole. Coloured aquatint by P. Fumagalli, ca. 1820.
  • Acrobats: a woman lying on top of a pole holding on to a boy tied to one end of a rope, while someone in a penguin costume watches a man do a headstand. Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist.
  • British politicians as acrobats at a fair: performances by Lord John Russell balancing on a pole inscribed "Irish corporation billl...", Daniel O'Connell swallowing a sword inscribed "Repeal", and Thomas Spring-Rice balancing on his chin an object with a picture of a church, watched by political onlookers. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1837.
  • Mahomet Caratha, an acrobat. Engraving by R. Graves.
  • A Bulgarian female acrobat standing on her hands.
  • A Bulgarian female acrobat wearing a leotard and tights.
  • The acrobat Otto Olympier, flexing his biceps. Photographic postcard, 192-.
  • The acrobat Otto Olympier, flexing his biceps. Photographic postcard, 192-.
  • A Bulgarian female acrobat performing contortions in a photographic studio.
  • An acrobat in various contortions. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • An acrobat in various contortions. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A woman acrobat with her belongings. Watercolour by an Indian artist.
  • A Bulgarian female acrobat performing contortions with a handkerchief in her mouth.
  • Tony Nelson-Machholz, a strongman and acrobat, rests his head on his fist. Process print, 1914.
  • Tony Nelson-Machholz, a strongman and acrobat, rests his head on his fist. Process print, 1914.
  • A woman acrobat holding a long stick and walking the tight rope. Watercolour by an Indian artist.
  • An acrobat climbing a pole held by another man while a musician drums out a beat. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • An acrobat walking a tightrope with four mud pots on his head while a musician looks on. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • Street performers: an acrobat on stilts while the other two provide background music for the act. Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist.
  • A man in an acrobat's outfit teaches a dog a trick while another dog looks on. Colour line block after C. MacIver Grierson.
  • A semi-naked acrobat and his two shadows hanging upside down with a white dove flying down towards him; 'Akrobaten/Bus', an illustration by Francis Picabia representing an advertisement for a booklet about sexually transmitted diseases entitled 'Consideration' by the Folkhälsoinstitutet. Colour lithograph, 1995.
  • A popular acrobatics performance. Reproduction of a wood engraving after Dalziel after R. Doyle.
  • The various ways of using horses, stags and elephants for the art of performing acrobatic feats shown in shown in seven sketches. Chalk lithograph by de Lemercier after V. J. Adam.
  • The various ways of using horses, stags and elephants for the art of performing acrobatic feats shown in shown in seven sketches. Chalk lithograph by de Lemercier after V. J. Adam.
  • A man riding astride two galloping horses blows bubbles from a pipe. Line block process print.
  • A naked man performs a handspring over another naked man on his hands and knees, landing on his feet. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.