Accession number
PML 147618.17
Published
London : Marshalls (Limited) 70 Berners St., [1890s?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Illustrated sheet music cover.
"By Edward St. Quentin [i.e. Alfred Rawlings]."
At head of sheet: Dedicated by special permission to Sir Augustus Harris & sung nightly by Mr. Stedman's choir at Coven Garden promenade concerts with enormous success.
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.
"By Edward St. Quentin [i.e. Alfred Rawlings]."
At head of sheet: Dedicated by special permission to Sir Augustus Harris & sung nightly by Mr. Stedman's choir at Coven Garden promenade concerts with enormous success.
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 ; 366 x 268 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
Stamped "With the publisher's compliments."
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Illustration of the figure of Britannia standing on a cannon and holding the British flag and a laurel wreath, with vignettes of the British army and navy at right.
Classification
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