Live auction - Lot 344
[Music - Opera]
Theatre Royal. Drury Lane. [...]. The celebrated Brussels Opera Company [...] Wednesday, July 15th, 1846 [...] Les Huguenots.
[London], W.S. Johnson, "Nassau Steam Press", 1846
Hammer price: €
60
€ 80 / 120
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Lot description
Lithogr., 49,5 x 24,5 cm (folds, some tears in the margin, lacks of paper in the lower part).
Mounted by the corners on a support sheet. Under passe-partout and rhodoid.
Rather rare placard concerning the performance of the Brussels Opera Company of "Les Huguenots", one of the most famous opera composed by Meyerbeer, conducted by the Belgian composer Charles Hassens (1802-1871), at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in London.
Ref. Van den Abeele, Bruxelles, 2020, p. 31.