Ref NoMWT/MUS/1/0574
CollectionMax Tyler Music Hall Collection
TitleThe Marble Arch
Name of creatorKino, Walter, performer
Date1818
Extent1 sheet music
DescriptionSheet music for piano and voice titled, “The Marble Arch” appearing as two folio sheets (8 pages total). Cover depicts, in lithograph, the performer standing in front of a large decorated arch way. It is raining and he wears a long coat and top-hat and is holding an umbrella. Behind him a group of children are moving towards him and one of them is saying, ‘Please sir, mother’s sent us to say she can’t come.’ Lyrics of the chorus are also depicted: “At the Marble Arch, at the Marble Arch, just as the clock struck ten, Muggins was waiting for Flossie dear, But Flossie dear was nowhere near, The Marble Arch, the Marble Arch; while he waited patiently, His Flossie was frying a three-farthing egg, for her old man’s tea.”
NotesBack cover has a list of "Francis, Day and Hunter's newest comic songs".
Outer folio is torn along the full length of the spine.
Cover has an ink stamp, only partially legible [Sch***]
SubjectMusical Theatre
Music Hall
Comedy
Songs
PhysicalDescription250 x 350mm, black and coloured ink printed on paper
Related PersonScott, Bennett, 1875-1930, composer
Cotes, C. G., composer
Kino, Walter, performer
Related OrganisationFrancis, Day & Hunter, London, publisher
H.G. Banks, lithographer.
T.B. Harms & Co, New York, publisher
Related PlaceLondon
CategorySheet music
Access conditionsThis material is available for consultation at the University of Kent's Special Collections & Archives reading room, Templeman Library, University of Kent, Canterbury, CT2 7NU (specialcollections@kent.ac.uk).
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