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VAN AMBURGH, Isaac (1808 – 65). Mr. Ducrow and Mr. Van Amburgh With the Beautiful Stud of Horses! Manchester: T. Wilkinson, 1841. Two-color letterpress broadside with wood-engraved image of the famed story of Mazeppa at the top, showing the Ukrainian man of legend lashed to the back of a horse. The bill advertises a theatrical retelling of the tale based on Lord Byron’s poem, in concert with Van Amburgh in the “den of triumph” with lions, tigers, and leopards. 29 ¼ x 9 ½”. Linen backed. Andrew Ducrow (1793 – 1842), who shares this bill with the American animal trainer Van Amburgh, was the proprietor of Astley’s circus and also its principal performer, being an expert equestrian rider.
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