Accession number
PML 147618.08
Published
London : C. Jefferys, [1889]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Color illustrated sheet music cover.
Richard Henry and John Crook's burlesque, "Lancelot the lovely, or, Idol of the King", premiered in 1889.
Signed "Hanhart Lith".
Forms part of a collection of 18 illustrated sheet music covers from the collection of Gordon N. Ray, the majority executed in chromolithography by the firm of Hanhart Lith.
Richard Henry and John Crook's burlesque, "Lancelot the lovely, or, Idol of the King", premiered in 1889.
Signed "Hanhart Lith".
Forms part of a collection of 18 illustrated sheet music covers from the collection of Gordon N. Ray, the majority executed in chromolithography by the firm of Hanhart Lith.
Description
1 print : color lithograph ; 364 x 265 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Shows a king and his court assembled outdoors surrounded by standing stones, looking on as two men in medieval dress engage in a boxing match, with the man at left wearing a cook pot instead of a helemet on his head; circular inset with a young woman at lower right.
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