The Sailor’s Dream

Date

1866

Code

CH/5/6/5/33

Extent

Single sheet of paper

Level

Item

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Lithographic music cover sheet for 'The Sailor's Dream'. Lithographic illustration by Alfred Concanen. Composed by John Pridham. Published by Robert Cocks & Company, London. 1881. Top features the title with colour illustration below. Illustration shows a sailor asleep in his hammock with an anchor and lamp nearby and a rope which forms a frame over the sleeping sailor, within the rope frame is a visualisation of the dream, showing the sailor outside a country house, reunited with his wife and two children. Text below 'DESCRIPTIVE FANTASIA, / FOR THE PIANO, BY / J.PRIDHAM'. With publisher's details below.

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