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Friendship, Love, and Duty; or, The Prussian Soldiers. Comedy, 5 acts

Description

Application, n.d. [1813?], unsigned, Edinburgh.

MS: prologue (dated Nov. 18, 1813, and signed W. A. Downs) and epilogue. (Latter dated Nov. 29, 1813, in B.C.)

Type
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Production date
1737-1824.
Call number
LA 1795
Creator
Larpent, John (1741-1824)(Opens in new tab)
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.
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