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"The Pilot on the Deep"
sheet music
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS & SHEET MUSICClifton, William
USA
Circa 1839
paper
13-1/4 x 10 in.
Sheet music: "THE PILOT ON THE DEEP,/ NEW YORK: THOMAS BIRCH,/ Published No. 95, Canal Street. Wholesale & Retail"; words by Sydney Nelson, music by Thomas Haynes Bayley (1997-1839); arranged by William Clifton; cover lithograph features sailor aloft; provenance: stamped "BOUGHT OF/ [PA]RKER & DIT[SON], BOSTON" (trimmed); 2 pages total. Compare illustration to scrimshaw tooth 1974.691.
1999.127.6