"Casabianca"

sheet music

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS & SHEET MUSIC
Turner, Joseph W.; Hemans, Felicia Dorothea Browne; Keith's Music Publishing House; Bouve, E. W.
USA, MA, Boston
1798-1835
paper
12-5/8 x 9-1/2 in.

Sheet music, "Casabianca", a descriptive nautical ballad; words (unascribed) by Felicia Dorothea Brown Hemans (1783-1835); music by Joseph W. Turner; published Boston by Keith's Music Publishing House, n.d.; dedicated to Horatio Nelson Oakes; cover lithograph by E. W. Bouve of Casabianca (son of commander Louis de Casabianca) on burning after deck of ship L'ORIENT, naval battle in background; caption under illustration "Young Casibianca [sic.], a boy about 13 years of age, son of the admiral of the Orient, remained at his post in the Battle of the Nile, after the ship/ had taken fire and all the guns had been abandoned, and perished in the explosion of the vessel, when the flames reached the Magazine"; foxed; 3 pages.

2004.61.13