Manuscripts

Black Beard; or, The Genoese Pirate, Songs, Duets, Glees, Chorusses, &c., in. Spectacle. James C. Cross

Description

No application. Prod. (as The Genoese Pirate; or, Black Beard,) C.G., Oct. 15, 1798 (previously, as Black Beard; or, The Captive Princess, Royal Circus, Apr. 9).

Printed copy (unpublished, sold in the theatre?): dated, by Larpent, C.G., Oct. 12; subtitle, Captive Princess, deleted, and Genose Pirate substituted. Comp. Blackbeard; or, The Captive Princess, in Cross's Circusiana, 1809 (K-D 428): minor differences.

Type

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Production date

1737-1824.

Call number

LA 1228

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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