Item #256942 Broadside advertising "The Peri, or, The Enchanted Fountain. Broadway Theatre...2nd Performance of Maeder's New Grand Romantic Opera and Splendid Fairy Spectacle, in which the distinguished Cantatrice Miss C. Richings will appear with Miss E. Reed, MR. T. Bishop, Mr. Richings & Mr. Rohr. The piece produced in the most Costly Style and at an expense of Several Thousand Dollars. Tuesday evening, December 14, 1852 will be performed for the 2nd time on any stage, (the subject taken from a story in Washington Irving's History of Columbus)...To conclude with the farce of the 2 Bonny Castles." Washington Irving, James G. Maeder.

Broadside advertising "The Peri, or, The Enchanted Fountain. Broadway Theatre...2nd Performance of Maeder's New Grand Romantic Opera and Splendid Fairy Spectacle, in which the distinguished Cantatrice Miss C. Richings will appear with Miss E. Reed, MR. T. Bishop, Mr. Richings & Mr. Rohr. The piece produced in the most Costly Style and at an expense of Several Thousand Dollars. Tuesday evening, December 14, 1852 will be performed for the 2nd time on any stage, (the subject taken from a story in Washington Irving's History of Columbus)...To conclude with the farce of the 2 Bonny Castles."

[New York: Broadway Theatre, 1852].

Price: $300.00


About the item

20-3/4 x 8-3/4 inches. Folio. Edges frayed with several losses effecting text at the bottom of the sheet.

Item #256942

A drama taking place in Porto Rico and based on a scene from Washington Irving's pseudo-fictional biography "A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Colubmus" (1828).