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Love is lightest

Description

Cover depicts Justice holding a scale, with Cupid on one side of the scale and a butterfly on the other. The butterfly weighs more than Cupid.

Details

Descriptive Terms

courtship
love
songs (document genre)
scales (weighing devices)
sheet music
prints (visual works)

Additional Identification Number

Sheet music project number SMHNE080

Physical Description

1 print : lithograph

Collection Code

MS007

Collection Name

Barrett family papers

Reference Code

MS007.01.13.01

Record Details

Originator

Danvers, Charles (Composer)
F., R. (Lyricist)

Material Type

sheet music
prints (visual works)

Other Organizations

Canova & Tarby's Lith.

Subjects

Cupids (Art)
Justice (Symbolic character)
Scales of justice (Symbol)
butterflies

Accruals Note

Included in the Sheet Music Images Database.
Courtship and love
Composed and partly founded on a Scotch Air.

Description Level

Item

Place of Publication

New York, N.Y.

Publisher

Firth & Hall

Location Note

Barrett Family Papers. Sheet Music of Mrs. G. Barrett (Bound, Vol. 1)

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