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Lane designed this print, or made changes to it, as seen by his signature in the stone in the lower left of some impressions. It is sheet music produced by W.H. Oakes. The printer is not identified; however, according to the impression from the Lester Levy collection of Johns Hopkins University, the printing of some states of the illustration is attributed to E.W. Bouvé.
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Filed under: Champney, Benjamin » // Sharp & Michelin, Printers – Boston »

E. W. Bouvé (1817–97) was a Boston-born lithographer and engraver active from 1839 until his death. He opened his first shop at 1 Graphic Court, Boston (misspelled "Gaphic" on at least one print) and then moved on to a partnership with William Sharp at 221 Washington Street. After his short stint with Sharp, he remained in the Washington Street building until 1848 as a solo artist. He served a short term on the City of Roxbury Common Council from 1849-51 before establishing a card engraving business and continued in that profession until his death. Bouvé is known to have produced sheet music covers, book illustrations, portraits, buildings, town views, certificates, charts, and plans.
This information has been summarized from Boston Lithography 1825–1880 by Sally Pierce and Catharina Slautterback.

Oakes & Swan were sheet music engravers and publishers, with a shop located on Tremont Row in Boston, Massachusetts. This was only a brief partnership (c.1840) of William H. Oakes and Samuel Swan. Oakes, however, went on to publish sheet music under his own name from 1840 to 1851.
– Catharina Slautterback
Newspaper
Boston Weekly Magazine Devoted to Moral and Entertaining Literature, Science, and the Fine Arts
"Deception"
v.iii, n.22
p. 175
"Now Boston people do surpass other cities in the execution of almost every species of artizanship [sic] connected with the press; and to none should a higher palm be awarded than to Wm. H. OAKES, music engraver and publisher, Tremont Row, for the beautiful style of his issues. His vignette titles are far superior to anything across the water, and are better specimens of art than half the engravings for sale at the print shops. Who has not seen and admired his "Old Arm Chair," with the music by Russell? and it is of this we would speak; for we have been shown another Old Arm Chair . . . which is an exact copy of Mr. Oakes's . . ."
Also filed under: Boston – Oakes Music Store » // Newspaper / Journal Articles »

One of the first uses of lithography, after its invention in France in the late eighteenth century and its development in America, was for sheet music covers. The music itself was printed from engraved copper plates, which was necessary for the clarity and evenness demanded by the public for the music. However, lithography provided a quick and inexpensive way to provide enticing pictorial title pages, or covers, for sheet music. Pendleton's shop produced the first lithographic sheet music cover printed in the United States in 1826. Much of Lane's work at Pendleton's involved sheet music covers, and examples here by other artists show some of the conventions around the designs.
This information has been summarized from Boston Lithography 1825–1880 by Sally Pierce and Catharina Slautterback.
Parker & Ditson
Courtesy American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass.
Dedicated to the Tiger Boat Club.
Also filed under: Bufford, J. H. Lith. – Boston » // Parker & Ditson, Pub. – Boston » // Thayer's, Lith. – Boston » // Tiger Boat Club » // Yacht & Small Pleasure Craft »
Comp. Marshall S. Pike, Esq.
Also filed under: Bufford, J. H. Lith. – Boston »
Paper, ink
13 x 10 in (33.02 x 25.4 cm)
Peabody Essex Museum (M26784)
"composed and inscribed to Colonel Baquiere, Owner of the "America" Schooner, 1851-1856"
Also filed under: "America" (Schooner Yacht) »
T. Moore's Lithography, Boston
12 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.
20 x 16 3/4 in (Framed)
Cape Ann Museum, Museum Purchase (2014.089.2)
Also filed under: Cod / Cod Fishing » // Johnston, David Claypoole » // Moore's, T. - Lith. - Boston »
Lithographic sheet music
11 x 7 1/4 in.
Boston Athenaeum
Also filed under: Pendleton's, Lith. – Boston » // Salmon, Robert »
Ink, paper
13 x 10 in (33.02 x 25.4 cm)
Peabody Essex Museum
Also filed under: "America" (Schooner Yacht) »
Ink on paper
13 x 10 inches
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Mass. (M26750)
Also filed under: "America" (Schooner Yacht) »