"Casabianca"

sheet music

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS & SHEET MUSIC
Bouve, E. W.; Turner, Joseph W.; Keith's Music Publishing House; Hemans, Felicia Dorothea Browne
USA, MA, Boston
1845
paper
13-1/4 x 10 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, 1845; dedicated to Horatio Nelson Oakes; color 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"; see near duplicate 2007.8.2.

2007.8.2