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Catalogue Entry
F. H. Lane del.
Thayer, Successor to Moore, Boston
- American Antiquarian Society (inv. 390)American Antiquarian Society (inv. 390)
- Johns Hopkins University (inv. 766)Johns Hopkins University (inv. 766)
This was one of at least three designs made by Lane for sheet music by Henry Russell. All three were printed by Thayer's. This one and The Old Arm Chair: A Ballad, 1840 (inv. 453) were both published by Oakes and Swan.
Historical Materials
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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 »
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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) »
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Benjamin W. Thayer (1814–75) was a lithographer operating in Boston from 1840–47 and 1851–53. According to an advertisement in the Boston Transcript, Thayer took over 204 Washington Street in 1840, the shop previously run by William S. Pendleton and Moore. Until 1845, he ran B. W. Thayer & Co. in conjunction with his brother-in-law, John H. Bufford, and John E. Moody. In 1846, Thayer left his partnership with Bufford, and opened a fancy goods store at 208 Washington Street, although he still listed himself as a lithographer. After not appearing in the Boston Directory from 1848–49, Thayer is recorded as having reentered his partnership with Bufford at 204 Washington Street and worked there until 1853, when he sold the shop to S. W. Chandler & Co. Thayer & Co. printed sheet music covers, theatrical posters, views of buildings and town views. After his lithography career, Thayer became a wealthy real estate broker and shareholder of multiple newspapers.
This information has been summarized from Boston Lithography 1825–1880 by Sally Pierce and Catharina Slautterback.
Newspaper
p. 2
"A Memorial. A large-sized print has lately been published by Mr. Simon Whitney, (B.W. Thayer & Co. Lithographers,) intended as a memorial of the late President. The design is happily conceived and the work executed in a manner calculated to do credit to the artist..."
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Frontispiece to "Bowdoin Poets"
Edited by Edward P. Weston
Published by Joseph Griffin, Brunswick
"E. Ruggles, del. Thayer, successor to Moore, Boston"
Collection of Melissa Geisler Trafton
Engraver listed as "Thayer, successor to Moore, Boston""E. Ruggles, del."
American Antiquarian Society (inv. 390)
Johns Hopkins University (inv. 766)
