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Freemens' quick step

Description

Notes:
as performed on the "glorious 10th of September," composed and dedicated to the delegates of the Bunker-Hill Whig convention of 1840 by George Hews.
For piano.
Lithograph cover illustration with blue foreground and background on title page; shows unfinished Bunker Hill monument surrounded by marchers and horsemen / Sketched on the spot by W. Sharp; Printed by Sharr [sic], Michelin & Co.
Extensive printed caption below lithograph: Remark's. As this print will remain long after all who beheld the brilliant spectacle shall have passed away, it may not be amiss to stamp upon it the interesting fact, that on this same '10th of September' a fair was held by ladies in the city of Boston for the purpose of obtaining funds for the completion of the Monument .

Access Conditions

Rights
No Copyright - United States
Restrictions on Use
Collection is open for research.

Citation

Sharp, William, and Hews, George, "Freemens' quick step" (1840). Prints, Drawings and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:383871/

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