Visual Materials

Calypso and Telemachus : An opera. Perform'd at the Queen's Theatre in the Hay-Market

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Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Call number: 105725
Creator: Hughes, John (1677-1720)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: With bookplate of Robert Hoe. Two page manuscript poem "To Mr Hughes on his opera" --attributed to be in the hand of Alexander Pope, but in fact a forgery by John Payne Collier. See Jenkins, David Clay, "Flies in amber: John Payne Collier's falsifications of Pope," Huntington Library Quarterly, Vol. 34, No. 4 (Aug. 1971), pp. 337-353.
Dimensions: 20 cm (8vo)
Associated people: Galliard, John Ernest, (-1747.); Sanger, Egbert, (1789-1883,); Hoe, Robert, (1688-1744,); Collier, John Payne,; Pope, Alexander,
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