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The Set of Fashionable Quadrilles – From Auber's Celebrated Opera of Gustavus the Third, or the Masked Ball (Sheet music cover)

Lithographer Nathaniel Currier American
Publisher Hewitt & Jaques American
Musical arrangement by F. Weiland American

1840

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Sheet music. New York view. Interior of Niblo's Garden. A large group of people attend a masked ball.

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Title: The Set of Fashionable Quadrilles – From Auber's Celebrated Opera of Gustavus the Third, or the Masked Ball (Sheet music cover)

Lithographer: Nathaniel Currier (American, Roxbury, Massachusetts 1813–1888 New York)

Publisher: Hewitt & Jaques (New York, NY)

Author: Musical arrangement by F. Weiland (American, 19th century)

Date: 1840

Medium: Lithograph

Dimensions: Image: 6 5/8 x 8 in. (16.8 x 20.3 cm)
Sheet: 13 9/16 x 10 1/16 in. (34.5 x 25.5 cm)

Classification: Prints

Credit Line: The Edward W. C. Arnold Collection of New York Prints, Maps and Pictures, Bequest of Edward W. C. Arnold, 1954

Accession Number: 54.90.867

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The United States and Canada, 1800-1900 A.D.

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