BIB_ID
412357
Accession number
MA 9572
Published
[London] : Fairbrother, Printer, Exeter Court, Strand, [1829]
Description
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 33.3 cm
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Broadside playbill for a performance of The Dramatist, a comedy by Frederic Reynolds, with R. W. Elliston appearing as Vapid. The panorama that follows depicts "the passage of the Danube, from the Fortress of Ismail to the Fortress of Izaksa, effected by the Russians on the 27th of May last, they being commanded by the Emperor Nicholas in person. [...] Vivid representation of the Bombardment of Braila! [...] The Black Sea, and Russian Fleet before Varna. Fortress of Varna! Distant View of Shoumla and the Balkan leading to Grand Expanse of Constantinople!".
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