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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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