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Incognita [print] : lancers.

Accession number
PML 147618.18
Published
London : Hopwood & Crew, [1893?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Illustrated sheet music cover.
"Arranged by Charles Coote."
"On airs from Lecocq's comic opera."
Original French libretto, "Le Cœur et la main", first performed at the Nouveautés Theatre, Paris on October 19th 1882. Renamed "Incognita" for first performance in England at the Lyric Theatre on October 6th, 1892.
Forms part of a collection of 18 illustrated sheet music covers from the collection of Gordon N. Ray, the majority executed in chromolithography by the firm of Hanhart Lith.
Description
1 print : color lithograph ; 366 x 268 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Illustrated with various figures from the opera, including a king with a young woman standing on his trailing ermine cloak, a man with a butterfly net, a group of dancers in voluminous skirts, and a group of three characters which includes a soldier, young woman, and man in a nightgown.
Classification
Department