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1. Does the harp of Rosa slumber [graphic]
- Creator:
- Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1829]
- Call Number:
- 829.00.00.117+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- An old woman in patched-up clothes with her harp huddles in a doorway. The satire contrasts the life of a street singer with the sweet lyrics of the popular ballad by Thomas Moore
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1985,0119.318., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., One line of quoted text beneath title: "Sleep, gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
- Publisher:
- Pub. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket, London
- Subject (Name):
- Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852.
- Subject (Topic):
- Street musicians, Harps, Older people, Poor persons, Women, and Doors & doorways
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- Lewis Walpole Library > Does the harp of Rosa slumber [graphic]