The Norfolk Guards Quick Step, as performed by the Boston Brigade band... – Vintage Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of The Norfolk Guards Quick Step, as performed by the Boston Brigade band.... It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The Norfolk Guards Quick Step, as performed by the Boston Brigade band...
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The title names the Norfolk Guards and the Boston Brigade band, which ties this quick step to a particular Massachusetts militia unit rather than to a general military theme. The cover is a tinted lithograph by Sharp & Michelin, whose shop was at 17 Tremont Row in Boston, and the copyright was held by the publishers Oakes & Swan. Militia companies of the period were both social and military, and their marches were often issued as printed music for parades and drills. Covers like this one combined military pageantry with commercial promotion, which makes the image useful as a record of Boston's civic life around 1840.
| Created / published | c1840. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, tinted. |
| Genre | Sheet music covers 1840.Lithographs 1840. |
| Subjects | LOT subdivision subject: Military Organizations. Copyright by Oakes & Swan. Lithograph by Sharp & Michelin, 17 Tremont Row. Caption card tracings: Artists, Publ. I.; Mass.--Norfolk; Militia -- Mass.; Music...-- Title pages; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,039 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-136355 |
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