Howard Carter's discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb in 1922 gave a stage magician with the same surname a topical line, and the Sphinx and King Tut soon appeared in his billing. the Sphinx and King Tut in his billing.
Charles Joseph Carter, known as Carter the Great, began touring the world in 1907, performing elaborate illusions to audiences across Asia, Australasia, India, Egypt and Europe. His acts included the vanishing elephant, the gallows escape and the surgical sawing-in-half. The Otis Lithograph Co. of Cleveland, Ohio lithographed this poster.
On the poster
A man in a white tropical suit and pith helmet rides a camel across a near-black ground. Behind him a red devil in a brown robe leans forward, clutching a silver trident. At upper left the Sphinx rises from curling orange smoke. Below the camel a figure in a keffiyeh looks upward, and at right yellow-green demons and a disembodied clawed hand press in from the dark blue shadows.
Towering cream-yellow slab-serif capitals outlined in red fill the top: "CARTER" full-width, and "THE GREAT" beside it in smaller letters. The tagline at the base reads: "SWEEPS THE SECRETS OF THE SPHINX / AND MARVELS OF THE TOMB OF OLD / KING TUT TO THE MODERN WORLD."
About this print
A digitally restored reproduction, printed on 200gsm Enhanced Matte Fine Art paper with pigment inks.
