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The Duke's Coat. Musical entertainment, 1 act

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Application n.d. [1815?], Samuel James Arnold, Lyceum. Not produced. (License refused.)

MS: endorsed by Larpent August 29th. 1815 Licence refused. Comp. The Duke's Coat; or, The Night after Waterloo: A Dramatick Anecdote; prepared for representation on the 6th September, at the Theatre-Royal, Lyceum, and Interdicted by the Licenser of Plays, 1815 (K-D 503): numerous slight differences.

Type
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Production date
1737-1824.
Call number
LA 1899
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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