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The Last Supper

Description: The painting depicts the Last Supper with yellow streaks of light emanating from Christ's head. The background is dark and the composition mostly yellows and blues.
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Date: 1799
Creator: Blake, William, 1757-1827
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Partner: UNT College of Visual Arts + Design

Matrimonio segreto : dramma giocoso in due atti = ou, Le mariage secret : opera comiLe mariage secret : opera comique en deux actesque en deux actes

Description: Domenico Cimarosa’s Il matrimonio segreto premiered at the Burgtheater in Vienna on 7 February 1792, just two months after Mozart’s death. It received immediate accolades, particularly from Emperor Leopold II, and the opera was performed a second time that day for a private audience that included the Holy Roman ruler. Il matrimonio segreto enjoyed a successful run that lasted almost a hundred years, with revised versions appearing in the second half of the nineteenth century; in 1933, the w… more
Date: 1799
Creator: Cimarosa, Domenico, 1749-1801 & Bertati, Giovanni, 1735-1815
Item Type: Refine your search to only Musical Score/Notation
Partner: UNT Music Library

Oeuvres de J. Haydn, Cahier IX contenant XXXIII Airs et Chansons

Description: Though the cover of this volume is in French, the title page gives the same information in German. This latter language also receives pride of place in the text underlay: Most songs are solely in German but, when lyrics are given in two languages, German is immediately below the musical staves with either Italian or French in italics below the German. Songs use one to three voices with the voice part sometimes integrated into the top staff of the piano part with text underlay indicating when to… more
Date: 1799
Creator: Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809)
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Oeuvres de J. Haydn, Cahier VIII

Description: This volume contains fifteen sacred and secular songs for one to four voices with piano accompaniment. Contrary to the title page, the titles of each song are given either in German or German and Italian. When both languages are present in the text underlay, the Italian text sits directly below the staves with German below the Italian. Most songs either give "Singstimme" or a voice part for the vocal staves; some give names of characters, possibly indicating a theatrical or semi-dramatic perfor… more
Date: 1799
Creator: Haydn, Joseph, 1732-1809
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Partner: UNT Music Library

Portrait of a Young Woman in White

Description: Portrait of a woman wearing a white dress, seated on a wooden chair and facing the right side of the painting. A red cloth is draped around her, over a wooden table on the left.
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Date: 1798~
Creator: David, Jacques-Louis
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[Theatre Royal Playbill]

Description: One-page announcement of plays to be performed January 25, 1798 at the Drury Lane Theatre, London. The first advertisement reads: "Never Acted. Theatre Royal, Drury-Lane. This present Thursday January 25, 1798, Their Majesties Servants will perform a New Comedy in Five acts called Knave or Not" (followed by a list of actors), "To which will be added (8th time) a new Grand Dramatick Romance called Blue-Beard; Or, Female Curiosity! The Scenery, Machinery, Dresses, and Decorations, entirely n… more
Date: 1798
Creator: Drury Lane Theatre.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Land Grant Indenture Document]

Description: Legal document for an indenture between James Winchester and Israel Moore of Sumner County, Tennessee which grants Moore land when he can pay $100 to the current owner, written October 17th, 1796. There are addenda acknowledging the land transfer, finalized in December, 1797.
Date: December 13, 1797
Creator: Tennessee
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Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Freedom of Press

Description: The colored etching depicts a group of people in front of many presses.
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Date: 1797
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["The Stars" mezzotint engraving]

Description: Mezzotint engraving print of a woman draped in fabrics with a wreath of ivy around her head playing a lyre with her face to the night sky. "The Stars" was designed by Middelton and printed by American printmaker John Sartain in Philadelphia in the early 1800s.
Date: [1797..1856]
Creator: Sartain, John
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[Binder's Collection: A. Worrell]

Description: Bound compilation of sheet music from the collection of Thurman Morrison, presumably compiled by Ann Worrell, whose name is inscribed on multiple works within the volume. The vast majority of titles in this collection were published in Philadelphia, and the remainder in Baltimore, between 1796 and 1830. A number of items have themes related to Scotland, along with several works about soldiers. Composers Michael Kelly, Joseph Mazinghi, John Stevenson, and Thomas H. Thompson are most prominent, w… more
Date: 1796/1830
Creator: Worrell, Ann
Item Type: Refine your search to only Musical Score/Notation
Partner: UNT Music Library
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The gentle shepherd, a pastoral comedy

Description: This is a copy of the libretto of the pastoral opera, "The gentle shepherd" by Allan Ramsey. It includes an engrave image bearing the inscription "Alan Ramsey Scotus," and "A. Ramsey, ad viv. del." (translatable as, drawing of the living subject) at the bottom left. It also bears the disclaimer and engraving signature, "Published according to Act of Parliament by D. Allan Edin, July 12, 1788" at the bottom right. The libretto includes twelve numbered plates depict various scenes from scenes… more
Date: 1796
Creator: Ramsay, Allan, 1686-1758.
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Partner: UNT Music Library
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