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Joan of Arc lancers [print].

Accession number
PML 147618.06
Published
London : E. Ascherberg & Co., [1891]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Illustrated sheet music cover.
Year of publication suggested by notices for Carr's comic opera which appeared in contemporary publications in 1891.
"By F. Osmond Carr on the airs from the opera burlesque Joan of Arc."
Lithographic illustration signed in the stone, "Burnside" and "Henderson & Spakling 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
Color illustration of a crowd standing in front of a castle, with two "minstrel" figures in their midst, and a group of tents in the background at right; with a circular inset at upper left with the figure of a king and two women in medieval attire.
Classification
Department