Manuscripts
The Walking Statue; or, The Devil in the Wine Cellar. Farce, 1 act. From Aaron Hill
- Description
No application. Prod. (as The Devil in the Wine Cellar) H2, July 25, 1786.
Printed copy: MS insertions and corrections.
J.P.C. in B.D.: The Walking Statue is in Larpents List as licensed for the Haymarket in 1786-It was a revival with alterations as appears by the Copy in his Collection.
- Production date
- 1737-1824.
- Call number
- LA 741
- 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).
