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Wrecker's daughter quick step

Collection Type

  • Ephemera

Date

1844

Location Note

Library and Archives. Stacks. Sheet Music. General Collection

GUSN

GUSN-193862

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Description

The cover depicts the personification of Hope, holding a memorial portrait of Grace Darling and her father who rescued nine survivors from the wreck of the ship, Forfarshire, off the Farne Islands, 1831.

Details

Descriptive Terms

portraits
shipwrecks
sheet music
prints (visual works)

Additional Identification Number

Sheet music project number SMHNE687

Physical Description

1 print : lithograph

Collection Code

EP001

Collection Name

Ephemera collection

Reference Code

EP001.10.TMP.059

Places

Farne Islands (Northumberland, England, United Kingdom) [island group]

Record Details

Originator

Rieff, Georg Joseph von, 1771-1842 (Composer)
Reed, George P. (Publisher)
Bouve & Sharp

Material Type

sheet music
prints (visual works)

Other People

Darling, Grace

Subjects

Forfarshire (Ship)
Ships and the sea

Accruals Note

Included in the Sheet Music Images Database.
Ships and the sea

Description Level

Item

Place of Publication

Boston, Mass.

Publisher

George P. Reed (Firm)

Location Note

Library and Archives. Stacks. Sheet Music. General Collection

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