Bartine

At the Pantheon Theatre, Cremorne Gardens, Melbourne

Argus, 16 December 1862

… the great skill, nerve, and elasticity of muscle required to take this Terrific Leap for Life: The necessary erections are placed in the open air, from which are suspended a few light cords, connected with a trapeze. Bartine takes his position on the top of the Pantheon Theatre, from which his startling flights commence. Literally throwing himself through the air at an altitude of 40 feet, he gyrates as he goes, clings for a second to one of the intervening bars, and then projects himself 20 foot forward to the next bar, where he hangs by his feet, turns backward somersaults through the air to his original trapeze, with no greater impetus than what is acquired from the oscillation of the ropes with which he swings himself onward (a distance of 100 feet) in his aerial progress …”

At the Royal Victoria Theatre, Sydney, 

Sydney Morning Herald, 6 September 1864

… in his great Blondin sensation feat of walking a single wire and carrying a man on his back from the back of the stage to the gallery, 150 feet long and 50 feet high, as performed by Bartine at Niblo’s Gardens, New York and at the … Opera House, Havana …