"Come cross my hand my art surpasses" : a favorite glee, for three voices / composed by Geo: Buxton, and sung with great applause by Miss Jackson, Master Elliot, and Mr. Sale ; the poetry from the Romance of the monk.

Record ID: 
417861
Accession number: 
PMC 1131
Creator: 
Buxton, George, active 1799.
Biographical Data: 
English composer.
Title: 
"Come cross my hand my art surpasses" : a favorite glee, for three voices / composed by Geo: Buxton, and sung with great applause by Miss Jackson, Master Elliot, and Mr. Sale ; the poetry from the Romance of the monk.
Uniform title: 
Come cross my hand my art surpasses
Published: 
London : Printed for the author, by E. Riley, at his Music Warehouse 8 Strand, [1799]
Credit Line: 
Purchased on the Mary Flagler Cary Fund, 1998.
Notes: 

For SAB unaccompanied.
Words from M.G. Lewis's romance "The monk."
Engraved throughout.

Associated names: 

Bianchi, Jane, 1776-1858.
Elliott, James, 1783-1856.
Sale, John, 1758-1827.
Riley, Edward, 1769-1829, printer.
Lewis, M. G. (Matthew Gregory), 1775-1818. Monk.