Manuscripts
Hercules's Choice of Pleasure or Virtue, and The Occasional Oratorio. Oratorios (fragments)
- Description
No application. Prod. (as The Choice of Hercules) C.G., Mar. 14, 1753 (?), and (as The Occasional Oratorio) C.G., Mar. 14, 1746.
MS: contains fragments, only, of the two oratorios; last page signed, George Frideric Handel.
- Production date
- 1737-1824.
- Call number
- LA 99
- Provenance
- Purchased with the Ellesmere collection from John Francis Granville Scroop Egerton, 3rd Earl of Ellesmere, through the agency of George D. Smith and Sotheby's of London, 1917. The collection was purchased by John Payne Collier. In 1853, he sold it to Francis Egerton, Viscount Brackley and 1st Earl of Ellesmere (1800-1857).
- Associated organization
- Great Britain.
