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LIB/PL/LT/CG/46
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LIB/PL/LT/CG/46
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Item
Title
Playbill, Covent Garden Theatre, 20 June 1812
1812
Extent and medium
1 playbill
Scope and content
Great Bill for the performance at the Covent Garden Theatre, 20 June 1812. Printed in red and black. At the head of the bill 'The Last Night but Five of Mrs Siddons's Acting'. The main piece was Shakespeare's 'King Henry the Eighth' and Mrs Siddons played Queen Katharine, 'Being her last appearance in that character'.
Trimmed on both sides and the at the foot with some loss of text. Manuscript annotation 'alone in the Pit'.