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LIB/ME/AE/18
Reference code
LIB/ME/AE/18
Level of description
Item
Title
Advertising handbill. Grand historical painting at Crosby Music Hall. Sheridan's ride. By T. Buchanan Read
[1870?]
Extent and medium
i handbill
Personal name
Read, Thomas Buchanan
Scope and content
Advertising handbill. 'Grand historical painting at Crosby Music Hall. Sheridan's ride. By T. Buchanan Read. The poet artist. On exhibition for a limited period. Commencing Friday, Oct. 21.'
The exhibition was to be held in Chicago, USA.
The topic of the painting is 'Sheridan's ride from Winchester'. Read's famous painting is dated 'Rome, 1870', the poem on which it is based was first published in 1864.