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Inscription du chalet de Sèricourt : Naples : autograph quotation signed, 1852 Mar. 3.

BIB_ID
314543
Accession number
MA 405.2
Creator
Scribe, Eugène, 1791-1861.
Display Date
1852 Mar. 3.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 15.4 cm
Notes
Bound with Scribe's autograph manuscript of La part du diable (MA 405); see related record for more information.
Scribe is said to have had a variation of this quotation engraved above the gates or door of his home at Séricourt.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1907.
Summary
Reading: "Le théâtre a payé cet asile champêtre / qui que to sois, merci! --je vous le dois peut-être!" Followed on the verso by a poem by an unidentified writer titled "Le Viole (fragment)" and beginning "Léger à la Beautè propia," (8 lines) dated Naples, 24 January 1847.