print;
music sheet/cover
- Museum number
- 1922,0710.400
- Description
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Music cover sheet for the song 'Why should I be sad'; with portrait of Mary Anne Keeley; three-quarter length, standing, leaning on fence in garden, to the right.
Lithograph
- Production date
- 19thC
- Dimensions
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Height: 202 millimetres
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Width: 153 millimetres (image)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This music sheet was advertised as 'New Songs' as 'Sung by Miss MARY KEELY' [and published by] Cramer Beale and Co.' (sic), in the The Norwich Mercury, Norwich, Wednesday, 30 April 1856, p. 1b. Before that, in December 1855, however, Mary Keeley (sic) had sung it at a benefit for the family of Mdlle. Julie, 'with such naive expression in the first act [of Buckstone's drama, The Wreck Ashore] that it called forth much applause, and, by desire, the same was sung again.' (The Era, London, Sunday, 23 December 1855, p. 12c) (this information via John Culme, email, February 2019).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1922
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1922,0710.400
