Madame Saqui (Marguerite-Antoinette Lalanne) | The renowned rope dancer

Madame Saqui (Marguerite-Antoinette Lalanne)

Royal Amphitheatre, Astley's…Re-Engagement of that Wonder Female…Mde. Saqui will (For the Tenth Time at this Theatre,) Go Through Her Surprising Performances! Particularly Her Grand Ascent! Lambeth: Romney, 1816

Broadside (502 x 185 mm). Numerous fonts; old folds, minor spotting. 

Madame Saqui was a renowned French tightrope walker and rope dancer. A celebrity of the era, she was mentioned in Thackeray's Vanity Fair. Remarkably, Saqui performed well into her seventies.