The Fairest Flower So Palely Drooping: Greenwood Cemetery Entrance to the Grounds of the Church of Our Saviour (sheet music cover and pamphlet)

Multiple artists/makers

1847

Not on view

Artwork Details

Title: The Fairest Flower So Palely Drooping: Greenwood Cemetery Entrance to the Grounds of the Church of Our Saviour (sheet music cover and pamphlet)
Lithographer: Charles Currier (American, Roxbury (?), Massachusetts 1818–1887 Brooklyn, New York)
Author: Music composed by Augusta Browne (American (born Ireland), Dublin 1820–1882)
Artist: Image after and words by Mary Balmanno (American, 1802–1875)
Publisher: Charles Holt, Jr. (New York, NY)
Date: 1847
Medium: Lithograph
Dimensions: Image: 7 3/8 × 5 7/8 in. (18.8 × 15 cm)
Sheet: 13 5/16 × 10 1/4 in. (33.8 × 26 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Rogers, Harris Brisbane Dick, and The Elisha Whittelsey Funds; and Gift of John Sise, by exchange, 1958
Object Number: 58.635.16(37)
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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