"Rock'd In the Cradle of the Deep"

sheet music

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS & SHEET MUSIC
Knight, Joseph Philip; Willard, Emma C. Hart; Charles Sheard & Co.; Wray
England, London
circa 1840
paper
141/4 x 1041/4 in.

Sheet music, "Rock'd In the Cradle of the Deep"; poetry by Mrs. [Emma C. Hart] Willard (1787-1870); music by J[oseph] P[hilip] Knight; published London by C. Sheard Musical Bouquet Office, circa 1840; cover engraved by Wray (signed lower left barely visible) in various scrolls and typefaces with illustration of shipwreck; illegible name handwritten in ink upper right; 2 pages. Mrs. Willard, headmistress of the Troy Female Seminary, Troy, NY, from 1821, wrote this song while on an ocean voyage. It was introduced by Knight at a concert in New York City, 1839.

2008.93.15