"Light May the Boat Row"
sheet music
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS & SHEET MUSICLewis, George W.
USA, NY, New York
1841
paper
12-3/4 x 10 in.
Sheet music: 'Light May the Boat Row'; [8th edition cover, 4th edition inside]; sung by Mrs. and Miss Watson, words by Jonas B. Phillips, music arranged for piano and voice in G-major "from a 'Northumbrian melody" by John Watson; copyright 1835 [1841] by J. F. Atwill; cover lithograph by G. W. Lewis, circa 1841; bow-quarter view of an American ship of the line firing a broadside salute off Castle Garden, New York harbor; Navy pulling boats, schooner, sloops visible; onlookers on Battery Pier; Staten Island in background; stamped at bottom "J. HOPKINS/ 259/ Washington St/ BOSTON"; one loose sheet between covers; edge torn, foxing; Ref: Stuart M. Frank. See also 1992.10.2, 2004.61.27, 2004.61.80.
UNIDENTIFIED ship-of-the-line; UNIDENTIFIED sloop; UNIDENTIFIED schooner; UNIDENTIFIED pulling boat
1996.104.2