Exhibition, at the Thespian Hotel, Pearl-Street, Albany
Subtitle: a numerous company of rope dancers, from Paris, having lately arrived here from New-York, offer their services to the public in a series of performances, in the above line, never before exhibited here : it will consist in a variety of dances and entertainments, which will be varied every evening of performance : nighs of performance, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, the next performance will be on Friday evening, the 20th instant ...
Publisher: publisher not identified
Published: 1805
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Subjects: Acrobats; Aerialists; Acrobatics; Tightrope walking; Amusements; Printed ephemera; Specimens
Description: Broadside announcing the program for the rope dancer exhibition at the Thespian Hotel for Friday, September 19, 1805. Includes list of acts such as "a dance in character, on the rope," "military evolutions, firing &c.," "the pyramid of Egypt, and the strength of Hercules," "a Biscayan dance," etc.
Notes: Named performers include Mr. and Mrs. Manfredi and [their daughters] Miss Louisa and Miss Catharine.

Eight circular wood engravings on verso of leaf depicting various tightrope and acrobatic acts.

"Performance to begin at half past 7, September 19, 1805."

Shaw, R.R. American bibliography, entry 8414

Purchased in 2018 with the Rose and Marian Hannah Winter Fund.