Contemporary copy of Les deux tonneaux, c.1768, with autograph revisions throughout
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CMV34577
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MA 650, ‘Les deux tonneaux, esquisse d’un opera comique : contemporary manuscript copy of the play, undated [ca. 1768?].’
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Contemporary copy of Les deux tonneaux, c.1768, with autograph revisions throughout
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In Voltaire’s Hand:
Yes
Brief Summary:
Contemporary copy of Les deux tonneaux, c.1768, with autograph revisions throughout.
Detailed Summary:
Voltaire sent a copy of this play to André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry in August 1768.
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Physical Description
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Extent:
37 pp.
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Height: 259 mm
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Unbound but stored in a blue cloth drop-spine box.
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Undecorated
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Voltaire has corrected the play throughout.
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History
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c.1768
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Provenance:
Purchased from J. Pearson & Co. in London in 1913 by Pierpont Morgan.
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