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Lot 384
Sale 3235 - American Furniture, Folk & Decorative Arts including Property from the Reed & Ba
Nov 13, 2014
5:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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$8,000 -
12,000
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Francis Scott Key, "Fort McHenry, or the Star-Spangled Banner, Sung with Great Applause by Mr. Hardinge, at the Theatre Baltimore Air, Anacreon in Heaven," sheet music publisher, george e. blake (1774-1871), philadelphia, after oct. 9, 1814
Four page folio, disbound, pages one and two engraved with music and text for "Battle of the Wabash, a patriotic song, written by Joseph Hutton to the Favourite Air of Anacreon in Heaven"; page three engraved with full text of Francis Scott Key's poem "Fort McHenry or the Star Spangled Banner..." page four is blank, mounted in a double-sided, glazed frame.
12 3/4 in. x 18 in. (sight)