The Harper Brothers-- One-Legged Brother Act by Eisenmann

Incredible and rare Charles EISENMAN portrait of these two wonderfully costumed one-legged acrobats or dancers. A songster from The Harper Brothers Parlor Circus (catalogue #4026) seems to identify the two subjects as Tom and Will Harper. Tom, the older brother (right) was a singer and dancer, and Will (left) was an acrobat. A recently seen Japanese circus woodcut shows two similar performers that traveled with an Italian(?) circus in Japan in the early 1900's.

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