BIB_ID
120344
Accession number
MA 3576
Creator
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900.
Display Date
1891.
Credit line
Gift of Frederick R. Koch, 1981.
Description
1 item (24 p.), bound ; 23.0
Notes
A draft of Act III, Lady Windermere's Fan; commissioned in 1890 and believed to have been written during the summer of 1891.
Provenance
Gift of Frederick R. Koch in 1981; from the collections of Richard Butlet Glaenzer and Marjorie Wiggin Prescott; purchased at the Prescott sale, Christie's New York, February 1981.
Summary
Written on the rectos and 8 versos of 16 leaves with additions and revisions throughout; on lined pages of a notebook from "Harding, Stationer, 45 Piccadilly W."
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (25.9 cm)
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