£149.00
As we know only too well, Victorian circus posters often contain details of some crazy-sounding performances. We decided to go a step further with this poster and cooked up some truly bizarre acts. Quite what a tribe of monkeys in a balloon actually looks like will have to be left to your imagination.
Beautifully assembled from bits of real vintage posters and artistically ‘aged' to perfection, The Monkey Tribe is available in three variations and each print comes with an information sheet.
Width: 331mm (13"). Height: 482mm (19"). The print will fit a standard 13" x 19" frame.
Digital print with pigment inks.
The Monkey Tribe is printed on 230gsm matt archival paper.
The poster reads as follows:
On Monday, May 21st, 1838, and During the Week
Circus Royal
All the Greatest Attractions, Including
The Monkey Tribe!
In a Balloon
The Arrival of the Royal
SheepStealing
Tournament
Blind Boy
And the
6 Performing Camels.
Admission One Shilling
Box-Office open Daily from Eleven to Five
Town-Meadows, Rochdale
Please select one of the 'Framed' options above.
Prints are framed professionally, to order, by a Guild Commended Framer using archival-quality materials and usually ship within 7 working days.
Frames are available in a vintage-looking, ‘distressed’ black finish that perfectly matches the aesthetic of the print. The frame is sealed on the back to prevent dust from entering and D-ring attachments and hanging cord are also fitted so that the print will arrive ready to hang. A card is also attached to the rear of the frame containing information about the print and how it was made.
High-quality acrylic is used in place of glass for all shipped orders. It is visibly identical, but should not be cleaned or polished with abrasives.
We package framed prints carefully to protect them from damage during shipping. Framed prints are shipped via Parcelforce and a tracking number will be sent to you via email as the print is dispatched.
The overall dimensions of the frame are: Width = 366mm, Height = 519mm, Depth = 20mm. The frame itself is 25mm wide all around.
Here at Kite, we've always been just a little bit obsessed with Victorian posters. Perhaps it's the amusing and bombastic sincerity of their old-fashioned language. It could be their impressive disregard for typographic simplicity. Or maybe it's the fact that old things just seem to have a beauty all of their own. Having collected hundreds of examples over the years, the idea for Vintage Mashups came about as a way to have some fun with the past and simultaneously produce something completely original that reminded us of why we've always loved looking at these things.
Every line of type and image on these posters is real and comes from genuinely old source materials like vintage posters, books and advertisements. But we've mixed them up. Along the way, we've created some fantastic and ridiculous-sounding events that never actually happened.
All our Vintage Mashups prints have been skillfully distressed and are digitally printed with pigment inks that should, perhaps ironically, keep them looking old for many years to come.
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