[Music manuscript].
Sydney, Emily Caroline Townshend, Countess, ca. 1810-1893
Category
Manuscripts and documents
Date
1826 - 1828
Materials
Place of origin
Beaudesert, Staffordshire
Collection
Plas Newydd, Anglesey
NT 3052640
Summary
Bibliographic description
1v. of music ; 19 x 24 cm (oblong 4to.) Loose insert: additional leaf of manuscript music, headed Asfied / W.G. Bevan, extracted from another album. Annotations of where and when pieces were played, e.g. "Phoenix Park, June 1828. Played by the 7th. Too perfect!!!" Provenance: inscribed "Emily Paget from my dearest Mama Beau Desert. December 1826" [i.e. Emily Caroline Townshend, Countess Sydney (ca. 1810-1893), née Paget]. Binding: nineteenth-century half green morocco, with marbled paper on boards; with greem morocco upper cover name plate, lettered "Emily"; double gold ruled spine.
Makers and roles
Sydney, Emily Caroline Townshend, Countess, ca. 1810-1893