Ref NoMWT/MUS/1/0590
CollectionMax Tyler Music Hall Collection
TitleA trip to Paris
Name of creatorKnowles, R. G. (Richard George), 1858-1919, performer
Date1895
Extent1 sheet music
DescriptionSheet music for piano and voice titled, “A trip to Paris” appearing as two folio sheets (8 pages total). The performer is depicted on the cover, in lithograph, holding up a decorative lamp in one hand, with the caption, ‘R.G.K throws light on the subject.’ There are three smaller scenes illustrated: a man punching another man on the nose through an open door; a man and a woman seated together on a bench with the caption, ‘”You want sitting on”, said she, so she sat upon my knee’; a man and a woman dancing riotously, kicking legs high in the air with the caption, ‘Exercise before supper.’
NotesFront cover bears an ink stamp, CS&Co..
Outer folio is torn along almost the full length of the spine.
SubjectMusical Theatre
Music Hall
Comedy
Songs
PhysicalDescription250 x 350mm, black and coloured ink printed on paper
Related PersonCarse, Roland, lyricist
Bucalossi, Ernest, 1863-1933, composer
Related OrganisationCharles Sheard & Co. London, publisher
H.G. Banks, lithographer.
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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