- Title:
- The Great Eastern Polka
- Object name(s):
- Sheet Music
- Brief description:
- Lithograph showing the scale of Brunel's gigantic ship the SS Great Eastern
- Collection:
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Associated concept:
- Entertainment & Leisure
- Associated concept:
- Prints
- Associated object:
- S.2524-1986
- Current reproduction location:
- https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2014GX6355/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg
- Location type:
- Thumbnail
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measured part:
- front cover
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 36
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measured part:
- front cover
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 27
- Material:
- paper
- Material:
- ink
- Object history note:
- R. J. Hamerton's image depicts the S.S. Great Eastern, an iron sailing steam ship designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel and nicknamed by him the 'Great Babe', and built by J. Scott Russell & Co. at Millwall on the River Thames, London. Launched in 1858, she was by far the largest ship ever built and had the capacity to carry 4,000 passengers from England to Australia without refuelling.
- Object name:
- Sheet Music
- Object number:
- S.438-1979
- Object production date:
- ca. 19th century
- Date - association:
- published
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1795-01-01
- Date - latest:
- 1903-12-31
- Object production organisation:
- Hopwood & Crew
- Organisation's association:
- publisher
- Object production person:
- Coote
- Person's association:
- composer
- Object production place:
- London
- Place association:
- published
- Physical description:
- Lithograph showing the scale of Brunel's gigantic ship the SS Great Eastern
- Reproduction number:
- 2014GX6355
- Responsible department/section:
- T&P
- Technique:
- chromolithography
- Technique:
- printing
- Technique:
- Lithograph, ink on paper. Intermediate pages composed of printed text.
- Text reason:
- Collections online record
- Text:
- Music sheet for The Great Eastern Polka, by Charles Coote, which featured in the burlesque Aladdin, or The Wonderful Scamp, a burlesque by H.J. Byron at London's Strand Theatre in April 1861. Hamerton's illustration on this music sheet depicts the S.S. Great Eastern, an iron sailing steam ship designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, nicknamed by him the 'Great Babe', and built by J. Scott Russell & Co. at Millwall on the River Thames, London. Launched in 1858, she was by far the largest ship ever built and had the capacity to carry 4,000 passengers from England to Australia without refuelling. The composer Charles Coote (1808-80) and his son Charles Coote Jnr. (1831-1916) who wrote this music were very successful composers - Coote Jnr. so much that in 1875 he bought out his publishers Hopwood and Crew.
- Text reason:
- Summary description
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/8d7608b1-3681-3c72-b955-cbca467084c0
Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/8d7608b1-3681-3c72-b955-cbca467084c0, Victoria and Albert Museum, CC BY-NC
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