Daniel BellingradtHow to enter the #weekend in pure 1789 style: a short 🧵
First rule for the weekend: do things differently. Like the acrobat, Johann Kolter, is doing in this woodcut. And wear feathers.
Enjoy your nonsense. And if you have a gun and a horse, well, you surely get the idea ...
This too is a ball game. You need to catch it (and have two horses, and wear a hat with feathers).
Entering the weekend like a human cannon ball: be unstoppable (and still wear your feathers).
All this is from a 1789 German broadside advertising an acrobatic horse riding show of Johann Kolter of the circus Malmström-Kolter.
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: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1937-0927-3