Stunning 1890’s Seven-part Wissembourg jumping jack sailor

 

1890. Seven-part jumping jack. Stencil-coloured lithograph printed by Wissembourg, Burckardts Nachfolger. Famed for their lithographs of the period.

 

An exceptional Wissembourg jumping jack, this is the caricature of a German sailor. Audiences delighted in pulling the string and making the figure "jump". This is a beautiful survivor. The online example online at present.

 

 

It is striking. Litho design ref Number :-1646 The colour is beautifully fresh for the age.

 

Annotated on bottom right “Deponict Druck u Verlag V C Burckardts Nachf Wissembourg (Elsass)”

 

Dimensions

W: 13in

D: 17in