Les deux tonneaux, esquisse d'un opera comique : contemporary manuscript copy of the play, undated [ca. 1768?].

Record ID: 
119635
Accession number: 
MA 650
Author: 
Voltaire, 1694-1778.
Credit: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description: 
1 item (37 p.), unbound ; 25.9 cm
Notes: 

Voltaire sent a copy of the play to André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry in August, 1768.--Cf. Voltaire and the Theatre of the Eighteenth Century by Marvin A. Carlson (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1998), p. 137.

Summary: 

A contemporary manuscript copy of the play, with some revisions throughout.

Housed in: 
Blue cloth drop-spine box (28.4 cm)
Provenance: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the Londn dealer J. Pearson & Co. before 1913.