In December 1890 the illusionist William B. Wood won a $3,200 court verdict against another performer for infringing his patents.
Wood patented the illusion on 12 November 1889 and named it after his wife, Edna Kirker Wood. He had trained under Harry Kellar. The Donaldson Lithographing Company of Newport, Kentucky printed the poster. After Wood was lost at sea in the Gulf of Mexico in 1908, Adelaide Herrmann performed the same levitation as The Maid of the Moon.
On the poster
A woman in a green and white costume rises from a pillar of fire with her arms outstretched, lit from below by a column of yellow-green light. On her left a scarlet devil recoils with his trident. On her right a man in white-tie evening dress gestures with a wand toward the base of the flame. Silhouetted figures surge against a fire-lit orange sky on a black ground.
A gold cameo portrait at upper right is labelled "Wm Wood".
About this print
A digitally restored reproduction, printed on 200gsm Enhanced Matte Fine Art paper with pigment inks.





