Highland fair, or, Union of the clans

(182) Frontispiece - Scots Opera

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(182) Frontispiece - Scots Opera
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Permanent URL	https://digital.nls.uk/91507728
Description	Caption reads: Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit. --- Virgil.

Form / genre:	Images > Pictures > Illustrations > Frontispieces
Subject / content:	Latin (language) Tents (portable buildings) Soldiers Engravings (prints)
Person / organisation:	Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 [Artist] Vandergucht, Mr. [Engraver]
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Highland fair, or, Union of the clans
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Description	An opera. As it is perform'd at the Theatre-Royal, in Drury-Lane, by His Majesty's servants. Written by Mr. Mitchell. With the musick, which wholly consists of select Scots tunes, prefix'd to each song.
Shelfmark	Glen.164(3)
Additional NLS resources:	Library catalogue record

Dates / events:	1731 [Date published]
Person / organisation:	Watts, John, -1763 [Publisher] Mitchell, Mr. (Joseph), 1684-1738 [Author]
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Composite volume
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Description	Containing How to grow rich: a comedy, and Alonzo. A tragedy, and The highland fair; or, union of the clans. An opera, and Mary, Queen of Scots, a tragedy, and The fall of Mortimer. An historical play.
Shelfmark	Glen.164(1-5)
Additional NLS resources:	Library catalogue record
Attribution and copyright:	Out of copyright - The physical item used to create this digital version is out of copyright

Form / genre:	Written and printed matter > Books
Places:	Europe > United Kingdom > England > Greater London > London (inhabited place) [Place published]
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Glen Collection of printed music
Description	Scottish songs and music of the 18th and early 19th centuries, including music for the Highland bagpipe. These are selected items from the collection of John Glen (1833 to 1904). Also includes a few manuscripts, some treatises, and other books on the subject.

Special collections of printed music
Description	The Glen Collection and the Inglis Collection represent mainly 18th and 19th century Scottish music, including Scottish songs. The collections of Berlioz and Verdi collected by bibliographer Cecil Hopkinson contain contemporary and later editions of the works of the two composers Berlioz and Verdi.