Geggies Playbills & Posters Gallery - magnified view

Playbill, Cooke’s Circus Royal, 13 August [no year]. While the Scottish-themed performances showed the popularity of the national drama, equestrian versions of Rob Roy – here enacted by Alfred Cooke – were popular in circus settings, with famous horsemen like Andrew Ducrow and Thomas Ord Pinder playing the role on horseback. Eph E/73.