Record ID:
193129
Accession number:
MA 4804
Credit:
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1993.
Description:
1 item (1 page) ; 37.2 x 22.5 cm
Notes:
There is no indication on the playbill when or where it was created, though presumably Dickens composed it near the date of the performance.
Summary:
The printer's copy, entirely in Dickens's hand, for the amateur performance at the Theatre Royal Liverpool on 28 July 1847 for the benefit of Leigh Hunt, in which Dickens, George Cruikshank, John Forster, Douglas Jerrold, G. H. Lewes, John Leech, Augustus Egg and others took part. The plays performed included "Every Man in his Humour," "Turning the Tables," and "Comfortable Lodgings: or Paris in 1750." A preliminary address, written for the occasion by Bulwer Lytton, was delivered by Forster.
Provenance:
Purchased at Sotheby's (New York), 10 Dec 1993, lot 287.
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