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Planet Hugill: A Life On-Line: Britten and John Donne, Rossini and Sir Walter Scott, Bach for Christmas
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A page in the pastiche opera Robert Bruce by Gioachino Rossini, Academie Royale de Musique, 1846. Handcoloured lithograph after an illustration by Alexandre Lacauchie from Victor Dollet's Galerie Dramatique: Costumes des Theatres
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