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The lost--(at last!)--chord.

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Image ID

832984


Item data

Title

The lost--(at last!)--chord.

Collection

Wallach Division Picture Collection
Music -- Street Organ

Date / Origin

Date Issued: 1892

Library Location

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection
Shelf locator: PC MUSIC-Stre

Subjects

Barrel organ
Coal
Musical instruments
Street musicians -- 1800-1899
Organ grinders -- 1800-1899
Sounds

Genres

Humorous Pictures

Notes

Content: Artist's initials on bottom right corner of image.
Content: "I know not of what he was dreaming, / As softly I stole aside, / And thoughtfully lifted a scuttle of coals, / And opened the window wide; / Though I judge from his satisfied simper / That his dreams were of anything, but / Of a blackened mound, and a muffled sound, / And a window suddenly shut."--lines of verse accompanying image.
Content: "The lost chord" is a song composed by Arthur Sullivan in 1877.
Source Note: Punch. (London : [s.n.] 1841-).

Physical Description

Wood engravings
Extent: 12.3 x 6 cm.
Foxing on image.

Identifiers

NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b17931252
Barcode: 33333159450929
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): d34f63a0-c558-012f-1f5c-58d385a7bc34

Rights

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Type Of Resource

Still Image

Date Issued

1892

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MLA format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "The lost--(at last!)--chord." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1892. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/d34f63a0-c558-012f-1f5c-58d385a7bc34

APA format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. (1892). The lost--(at last!)--chord. Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/d34f63a0-c558-012f-1f5c-58d385a7bc34

Chicago/Turabian Format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "The lost--(at last!)--chord." New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 11, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/d34f63a0-c558-012f-1f5c-58d385a7bc34

Wikipedia citation

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