Full-color stone lithograph depicting the “marvelous equilibrist and originator” at several intervals during his act, with an inset portrait of Philion in the upper left. While balancing atop a wooden sphere, the French daredevil would ascend and descend a spiral tower and venture out onto a “slender cable forty feet from the ground”. As pictured, the climax of Philion’s performance involved “rushing headlong down the tower enveloped in flames and fireworks.” Linen backed. Mild toning, A-. See Ricky Jay's Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women (1986) for more information on this act and others like it.
