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Summary

Artist

"Thomas Fife,.DEL.ET.SC.LIVERPOOL". Printers: Jones & Crosskill, Printers And Booksellers, Yorkshire Street, Rochdale

Author

"Thomas Fife,.DEL.ET.SC.LIVERPOOL". Printers: Jones & Crosskill, Printers And Booksellers, Yorkshire Street, Rochdale for



Alternative names	William Darby
Description	British circus performer and equestrian
Date of birth/death	28 February 1796	4 May 1871
Location of birth/death	Norwich	Stockport
Authority file	: Q738593 Oxford Dict.: 53827

Object type

print

Description

The Beatles' song "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!" was inspired by this 1843 poster advertising a show of Pablo Fanque's Circus Royal company.

Date

1843

Place of creation

Rochdale

Inscriptions

Text:

PABLO FANQUE'S CIRCUS ROYAL

TOWN-MEADOWS, ROCHDALE Grandest Night of the Season! AND POSITIVELY THE LAST NIGHT BUT THREE! BEING FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. KITE, (LATE OF WELLS'S CIRCUS) AND MR. J. HENDERSON, THE CELEBRATED SOMERSET THROWER! WIRE DANCER, VAULTER, RIDER, &c. On TUESDAY Evening, February 14, 1843.

Messrs. KITE and HENDERSON, in announcing the following Entertainments ensure the Public that this Night's Production will be one of the most splendid ever produced in this Town, having been some days in preparation.

Mr. Kite will, for this night only, introduce the CELEBRATED HORSE, ZANTHUS! Well known to be one of the best Broke Horses IN THE WORLD!!!

Mr. HENDERSON will undertake the arduous Task of THROWING TWENTY-ONE SOMERSETS, ON THE SOLID GROUND.

Mr. KITE will appear, for the first time this season, On The Tight Rope, When Two Gentlemen Amateurs of this Town will perform with him.

Mr. HENDERSON will, for the first time in Rochdale, introduce his extraordinary TRAMPOLINE LEAPS AND SOMERSETS!

Over Men & Horses, through Hoops, over Garters and lastly through a Hogshead of REAL FIRE! In this branch of the profession Mr. H challenges THE WORLD!

For particulars see Bills of the day.

Signature bottom:

Jones & Crosskill, printers and booksellers, Yorkshire Street, Rochdale

Source/Photographer

English: Previously uploaded to en:Wikipedia as en:File:MrKitePoster.jpg on 00:51, 23 March 2006 by en:User:Thejokerlaughs27

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	21:09, 10 July 2019	672 × 1,417 (835 KB)	Király-Seth	Lightened
	12:06, 2 November 2018	672 × 1,417 (536 KB)	Aquegg	Better photo
	07:14, 24 April 2017	571 × 1,149 (114 KB)	Aquegg	Per file description—the actual 19th century poster. (Previous uploads are modern recreations.)
	11:56, 24 April 2015	380 × 685 (118 KB)	Nakinn	From en.wiki.
	18:01, 4 November 2007	640 × 1,208 (60 KB)	JeanTwix~commonswiki	{{Information \|Description=a nineteenth century circus poster upon which the Beatles' song "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!" is based \|Source=English Wikipedia \|Date=Nineteenth century \|Author=unknown \|Permission=PD, expired copyright \|other_versions=