Daniel BellingradtMar 20
How to enter the weekend in pure 1789 style: a short 🧵
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First rule for the weekend: do things differently. Like the acrobat, Johann Kolter, is doing in this woodcut. And wear feathers.
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Enjoy your nonsense. And if you have a gun and a horse, well, you surely get the idea ...
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As they say, try new things.
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This too is a ball game. You need to catch it (and have two horses, and wear a hat with feathers).
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Hi, next-door neighbours!
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Entering the weekend like a human cannon ball: be unstoppable (and still wear your feathers).
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And don't forget to do your yoga.
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All this is from a 1789 German broadside advertising an acrobatic horse riding show of Johann Kolter of the circus Malmström-Kolter. #skystorians #horsesky
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The text mentions, among other details, the request not to bring any dogs so that the horses are not alarmed! You may find a digital copy of this print, for example, over here: www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...

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And with this, #CircusSky finally meets #WeekendSky.