• Performance Type:
  Circus
• Days & Times: “to-morrow”
• Venue Name: Astley’s Royal Amphitheatre
• Other Acts on Bill: La Petite Isabelle, M. Leonard, M and Mdme Dumos, Herr Henric, Laurentz Wolf, Mr. Powel, Mr. Bell, and “the Mr. T. Barry– the popular Hibernian clown, assisted by Mr Twist, the grotesque”.
• Program Info: “Lord’s Byron’s BRIDE OF ABYDOS; or The Corsar and the Avenger’s Steed” plus animals.
• Other:
  performance time
  ticket info

• Performance Type:
  Variety
• Troupe Name: “The Bedouin Arabs, from Vauxhall Gardens”,
• Performers Listed: “The Bedouin Arabs”, “Signor Rochez and the Mexican prodigy”, “the Infant Amazon”
• Days & Times: “the past week” , “nightly”.
• Venue Name: Brighton Theatre
• Other Acts on Bill: “the brothers Kittler and their Tyrolean Band”
• Other:
  audience,
  reception

• Performance Type:
  Variety
• Troupe Name: “The Bedouin Arabs, from Vauxhall Gardens, for a short period”, “Santa Ameson and his infant son, known as the Mexican Wonders”,
• Days & Times: “tomorrow and during the week”
• Venue Name: Casino de Venise, 218, High Holborn.
• Other Acts on Bill: “Grand VOCAL and INSTRUMENTAL CONCERT and BALL” , “Godfrey’s Quadrille Band will perform a selection of fashionable Polkas, ”.
• Other:
  audience,
  description/review,
  performance time,
  reception,
  ticket info

• Performance Type:
  Variety
• Troupe Name: “The Bedouin Arabs”, “Santa Ameson and his infant son, known as the Mexican Wonders”,
• Days & Times: “tomorrow and during the week”
• Venue Name: Casino de Venice, High Holborn.
• Other:
  description/review

• description of the exhibition of a “Chinese Collection at “Fair-field, near the Church, Bow, Xin Teen, ‘Golden Palace’”

• Performance Type:
  Variety
• Troupe Name: “The Bedouin Arabs”
• Days & Times: “nightly”
• Venue Name: Vauxhall Gardens
• Other Acts on Bill: “great French Equestrian, Mdlle Valentine, Mons and Mddlle Monfroid, Concert from Franconi’s and M Columbrier’s Troupe”, “The Tyrolese Minstrels, the Kramer family,” “Dowager,” “Signor Ameson and his infant son,” “Pantomimic Sketch from Harlequin and Mother Goose,” “Clown, Mr. T Matthews.”
• Other:
  audience,
  description/review,
  performance time,
  reception,
  ticket info

• Performance Type:
  Dramatic
• Performers Listed: Rafter, Miss Messent, Harley
• Venue Name: Drury-Lane Theatre
• Program Info: “The Desert, or the Imaum’s Daughter” , “adapted from Moore’s oriental romance of “Lalla Rookh”, Music by “Felicien David, from his well-remembered symphonia, “The Desert”.” “An underplot has been introduced for dramatic effect, embracing a horde of Bedouin Arabs and their Chief Barek.”
• Other:
  description/review

• Performance Type:
  Dramatic
• Days & Times: “on Wednesday”
• Venue Name: ROYAL GRECIAN SALOON
• Other Acts on Bill: “the farce of Edwin and Emma”, “MARY COPP”; “The Happiest Day of My Life”
• Program Info: “Sketches in India”
• Other:
  performance time,
  ticket info,
  other (surrounding performances at venue)

• Performance Type:
  Variety
• Days & Times: “performance to-morrow”
• Venue Name: Surrey Theatre
• Other:
  description/review
  other (specify): mention “The Arabs … had a rehearsal on Wednesday…”

• Performance Type:
  Dramatic
• Performers Listed: Mr Rafter, Miss Messent,
• Days & Times: “on Monday night” (past)
• Venue Name: Drury Lane
• Other Acts on Bill: “Maritana” (opera).
• Program Info: “the new and original Oriental operatic spectacle […] “The Desert, or the Imaum’s Daughter” … with all due Oriental pomp and pageantry”, “A pretty cavatina, “Sweet Charity,” sung by Miss Messent; the air, “All is Changed,” two charming ballads, “Red and the Roses,” and “Listen to Humming Bird!” sung by Mr Rafter”.
• Other:
  description/review,
  (imagery)

• Performance Type:
  Circus
• Performers Listed: Mr. Barton, Mr. Harwood, Mr. Crowther, Miss Rosa Henry, and “The immortal Mr. Widdicombe as his own dear self in a huge Turban and Spangled Robe”
• Venue Name: Astley’s
• Other Acts on Bill: “Scenes from the Circle”
• Program Info: “The Bride of Abydos”
• Other:
  audience
  description/review
  imagery
  other (specify)” Notes that it’s a very popular piece.”

• Mention of “Gypsy Encampments” on a list of attractions at the Royal Gardens, Brighton during Grand Fetes on July 5-8.

• Advertisement for performances by the Bedouin Arabs (between dramatic pieces) at the Theatre Royal, Brighton on October 2, 1847.

• Advertisement for a performance of selections from Judas Maccabeus on March 25 at the Newburgh Rooms, Brighton.

• Advertisement for a Grand Gala at the Zoo, including performances by Ramo Samee, on August 9, 1847.

• Advertisement for Cooke’s Royal Circus, Bristol, which mentions that Monday, November 29 will be the first night of “St. George and the Dragon.”

• Playbill listing a performance of “This House to be Sold, The Property of the Late William Shakspere, Enquire Within” (which includes a Shylock character) at the Theatre Royal, Sheffield on October 15th, 1847

• Playbill advertising a performance of “The Merchant of Venice”, starring Mr. H. Betty, at the Queen’s Theatre, Manchester, on April 16, 1847.

• Playbill advertising a performance of “The Merchant of Venice”, starring Mr. H. Betty, at the Queen’s Theatre, Manchester, on April 16, 1847.

• Brief mention of recent performances of ‘The Creole’ in Barnstaple.

• Advertisement for a performance of ‘Pizarro’, at the Royal Standard Theatre the following Tuesday.

• Listing of entertainment at the Theatre Royal, Liverpool. The Bedouin Arabs are the opening feature.

• Mention of a performance of ‘Pizarro’ in Gainsborough the preceding Wednesday evening.

• Advertisement for an upcoming performance at Vauxhall, during which the Bedouin Arabs are to perform in the presence of the Queen.

• Ad announcing a performance of ‘Flowers of the Forest’ at the Theatre Royal, Adelphi the following Thursday.

• A description of the “Bedouin Arabs”, who have been engaged to perform at the Royal Surrey Theatre.

• Review of an Easter production of ‘The Flowers of the Forest’ at the Adelphi Theatre, London.

• Discussion of the entertainments at Vauxhall the previous Monday evening. “Arab vaulters” are amongst the acts mentioned.

• Mention of a production of ‘The Governor’s Wife’ in Yarmouth on July 14.

• Piece detailing upcoming entertainments at Vauxhall Gardens, London. Listed acts include “the Bedouin Arabs”

• Review of a performance of ‘The Bohemian Girl’, which took place in Bath the preceding Saturday (seemingly September 18, 1847).

• Vauxhall Playbill for the week of July 26. In addition to Collins, the bill also featured the Bedouin Arabs and “La Boemiene Arabes! A New Dance invented and executed by Madame Lejars” (Equestrian)

• Playbill listing the entertainments to be offered at Vauxhall Gardens, London during the week of June 21, 1847. Includes performances by “The renowned Bedouin Arabs”.

• Playbill listing the entertainments to be offered at Vauxhall Gardens, London during the week of September 7, 1847. Includes performances by “The Bedouin Arabs” and “Santa Amesou and his Infant Son”. Also mentions past performances by the “Bedouin Arabs” at the St. James’s Theatre, London on June 26th, 1847.

• Playbill listing the entertainments to be offered at Vauxhall Gardens, London on August 9 & 10, 1847. Includes performances by “The Renowned Bedouin Arabs” and “Santa Ameson and his Infant Son”.

• Vauxhall Playbill for the week of August 16. In addition to the Sharp’s minstrel song, the bill also featured the Bedouin Arabs and Santa Ameson and his Infant Son.

• Vauxhall Playbill for the week of August 16. In addition to the Sharp’s minstrel song, the bill also featured the Bedouin Arabs and Santa Ameson and his Infant Son.

• Performance Type:
  Exhibition?
• Troupe Name: “The Bedouin Arabs,”
• Days & Times: “Saturday, June 26th
• Venue Name: “St. James’s Theatre”
• Other:
  audience,
  reception,

var

• Performance Type:
  Exhibition?
• Troupe Name: “The Bedouin Arabs,”
• Days & Times: “Saturday, June 26th
• Venue Name: “St. James’s Theatre”
• Other:
  audience,
  reception,

var

• Performance Type:
  Variety
• Troupe Name: “The Bedouin Arabs,” “The Mexican Wonders, Santa Amesou [sic] and his Infant Son,”
• Days & Times: “Monday, Aug 23, and Every Night during the Week, (Saturday Excepted)”
• Venue Name: “Royal Gardens, Vauxhall”
• Other Acts on Bill: Complete listing; see attached document scan
• Program Info: Bedouin Arabs “will nightly display their unrivalled Feats of Agility and Strength,” “Santa Ameson and his Infant Son, will give, a-la-Risley, their Novel & Graceful Calisthenic and Gymnastic Exercises,”
• Other:
  performance time,
  ticket info,
  other (venue info – patronage, staff, history, etc.),
  other (surrounding events at venue)

• Performance Type:
  Exhibition?
• Troupe Name: “The Bedouin Arabs,”
• Days & Times: “Saturday, June 26th
• Venue Name: “St. James’s Theatre”
• Other:
  audience,
  reception,

• Performance Type:
  Exhibition?
• Troupe Name: “The renowned Bedouin Arabs,”
• Days & Times: “Saturday, the 26th June”
• Venue Name: “St. James’s Theatre”
• Other:
  audience,
  reception,

• Playbill for entertainments at the Theatre-Royal, Liverpool on May 5, 1847. Following Hamlet, “the Native Bedouin Arab Tribes” are to appear in “ a Grand Oriental Festival, in the Halls of Abd-el-Kader (the Emir of the Desert)”

• Playbill for Theatre-Royal, Liverpool. Mentions that November 4, 1847 will be the “last night but two” of both “The Bedouin Arabs” and “The Mexican Wonders, Santa Amesou and his Infant Son.”

• Playbill for Theatre-Royal, Liverpool. Mentions that November 4, 1847 will be the “last night but two” of both “The Bedouin Arabs” and “The Mexican Wonders, Santa Amesou and his Infant Son.”

• Review of the performance of Illusion, or, The Trances of Mourjahad at the Theatre Royal, Newcastle on June 21, 1847.

• Listing of the entertainments at the Theatre Royal, Newcastle on November 29, 1847. Includes Flowers of the Forest.

• Review of recent entertainments at the Theatre Royal, Newcastle, Notes that The Merchant of Venice was performed on December 15.

• Advertisement for a benefit performance on May 3 at Drury Lane, which lists the “popular musical play of Guy Mannering; or, The Gipsy’s Prophecy,” and “the grand spectacle of The Desert” (including “Mr. Hughes’ Mammoth Establishment”) amongst the acts offered. (The New Orleans Ethiopian Serenaders are also slated to give a concert at this event)

• Advertisement for the following week at Drury Lane, which includes several performances of the “new and original oriental, operatic spectacle, called The Desert; or, The Imaum’s Daughter

• Description of recent entertainments at Astley’s Amphitheatre that includes mention of “the oriental spectacle of ‘The Bride of Abydos.’” Also: Description of recent entertainments at the Royal Italian Opera, Covent Garden. Includes includes mention of “Rossini’s opera of ‘Semiramide,’ [with] Grisi appearing as Egypt’s queen.” In another section (of this lengthy article): Brief listing of the entertainments to take place at Her Majesty’s Theatre the following Tuesday. The ballet is to be “La Esmeralda.”

• Mention of “Dimond’s Eastern burletta of ‘Abon Hassan’” amongst the recent acts on the variety bill at the Grecian Saloon. (“Ethiopian Serenaders, male and female” also listed).

• Review of the Command Performance at Vauxhall Gardens (London) on June 26 that featured the Bedouin Arabs along with the Ethiopian Serenaders

• Advertisement for Astley’s Circus, at Batty’s Royal Arena (King Street, Southsea). The July 29 show is to include “a grand Cavalcade, entitled the Halt of the Arab Horde” and “Mr. J. Powell in a splendid Act as The Chinese Enchanter!”

• Advertisement for Astley’s Circus, at Batty’s Royal Arena (King Street, Southsea). The July 29 show is to include “a grand Cavalcade, entitled the Halt of the Arab Horde” and “Mr. J. Powell in a splendid Act as The Chinese Enchanter!”

• Listing of the pieces to be performed at the Theatre Royal, Sheffield on April 23, 1847. Includes The Demon of the Desert.

• Listing of the pieces to be performed at the Theatre Royal, Sheffield on November 8, 1847. Includes Flowers of the Forest.

• Advertisement for 3 further performances Theatre Royal, Sheffield (November 25-27, 1847) featuring performances by the Bedouin Arabs and Santa Amson and his infant son.

• Description of the arrival of Hughes’ animal troupe the previous Monday. Mentions “two splendid carriages, the one drawn by four camels dressed in Egyptian paraphernalia, the other drawn by two stupendous elephants, clothed in gold cloths and oriental devices”.

• Review of ‘The Desert; or, the Imaum’s Daughter’, as produced at Drury Lane the previous Monday evening.

• Notice of a performance by the Bedouin Arabs at the Surrey Theatre, London.

• Description/review of entertainments at the Surrey Theatre, London during the previous week. The Bedouin Arabs are amongst the acts mentioned.

• Description of an extravaganza recently performed at the Adelphi Theatre (London). In the piece, a man purchases Shakespeare’s home and dreams that the bard and his lead characters (including Othello & Shylock) appear to him. Shylock is described as wanting to become a theatre manager, “like others of his tribe”.

• Review of a recent performance of The Merchant of Venice, starring Mr. Dickinson as Shylock, in Arbroath.

• Description/review of an amateur performance of The Merchant of Venice, which took place the previous Tuesday at the Temperance Hall, Waterloo Road (London).

• Mention of upcoming performances, at the Holborn Casino (London), by “those wonderful Arabs […] who so astonished the weak nerves of the English at Vauxhall last season” (presumably the Bedouin Arabs)

• Brief notice about a newly-opened exhibition of views of “the Battle of Sobraon” and of “the City of Cairo” at the Panorama Royal, Leicester Square, London.

• Listing of entertainments offered at the Theatre Royal, Sheffield on Monday, November 29, 1847. Includes performances by the Bedouin Arabs and Santa Amson and his infant son.

• Mention of performances by the Bedouin Arabs (between dramatic pieces) at the Theatre Royal, Brighton on September 29, 1847.

• Listing of the entertainments on offer at the Theatre Royal, Brighton on October 23, 1847. Includes The Merchant of Venice

• Listing of the entertainments on offer at the Theatre Royal, Newcastle on November 30, 1847. Includes The Flowers of the Forest.