HERRMANN, Adelaide (1853 - 1932). Adelaide Herrmann and Company. The Flight of the Favorite. New York: The Metropolitan Printing Co., ca. 1905. One-sheet stone lithograph for the transposition effect presented in Mme. Herrmann’s vaudeville magic show. A Geisha character in one cabinet vanishes, reappearing in a similar box some distance away. Adelaide Herrmann stands at the front of the scene. Framed to 46 x 36". Recently restored and reframed. A TRUE RARITY; one of two known examples of this poster, the other held institutionally.

This poster dates to the vaudeville career of Adelaide Herrmann, in the years following the death of her husband and co-star, Alexander, and following a subsequent partnership with her nephew, Leon. Madame Herrmann became a star in her own right in these years, working in vaudeville for many seasons with a stage-filling spectacle, and earning the moniker of the "Queen of Magic." 

Linen-backed; not examined out of frame.