"The Sailor's Dream"

sheet music

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS & SHEET MUSIC
Pridham, J.; Stannard & Son; Robert Cocks & Co.
England, London
1837 - 1863
paper
13-1/2 x 10 in.

Sheet music: "The Sailor's Dream"; descriptive fantasia for the piano by J. Pridham; published London, by Robert Cocks & Co., New Burlington St. Regent St. W., by special appointment, Music Publishers to Her Majesty Queen Victoria& His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales; c. 1840-1860 [per Stuart M. Frank]; 6 pages; cover polychrome lithograph of sailor sleeping in hammock below decks dreaming of family and home; Stannard & Son, Lith.; green rubber stamp at lower left "Holder Bros.,/ Pianoforte Warerooms, Hull & Grimsby." See also 2003.53.14, same title, different composition.

1997.87.9