"Willie, My Brave"

sheet music

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS & SHEET MUSIC
Foster, Stephen C.; L.A. Alfred Schmidt; Sarony, Major & Knapp; Firth, Pond & Co.; Lawson
USA, PA, Philadelphia; TURKEY, Constantinople
1851
paper
13-1/4 x 10-1/4 in.

Sheet music, "Willie, My Brave", ballad; words and music by Stephen C. Foster; published Philadelphia by A.L. Alfred Schmidt; copyright? 1851 by Firth Pond & Co.; new edition dedicated to Mrs. A.L. Robinson; cover lithograph by Sarony, Major & Knapp, 3 detailed vignettes: shipwreck, woman seated with greyhound on shore looking out to sea, and ship with studding sails set in harbor (Constantinople?); engraved by Larson; per Stuart M. Frank, "Exquisite late edition of a genre piece by the greatest Americana songwriter of his era."; 3 pages.

2007.22.27