Very attractive early 19th-century broadside with a beautiful, large woodcut of a spectacular medieval show, enlivened with fireworks. The text below announces the show of a gymnastics (circus) company under the direction of Bartholomäus Ramini (dates unknown). According to the playbill, the show consisted of four parts: an acrobatic performance by a four-year old; a horse dressage by "lustige Kaspar"; an acrobatic act with, among others, balancing and a human pyramid; and a play of "Otto der Stählerne im Kampfe mit dem rothen Feuerriesen und die Befreiung der Prinzessin Clotilde" (translation: Otto the man of steel, fighting with the red fire giant and the liberation of Princess Clothilde), which included fireworks. This last part of the performance has also been mentioned as part of another circus show, which was held at Prague in June 1827, under the direction of a citizen of Prague named "Beranek" (Journal für Kunst, Literatur und geselliges Leben). The present broadside most likely announces the same theatre or circus company, now performing in a different location.
The work has been folded in the past. Otherwise in very good condition. Cf. Journal für Kunst, Literatur und geselliges Leben, nr. 74, 21 June 1827, p. 592.