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Galway Bay

Sheet Music
1947 (published)
Artist/Maker
Box and Cox Publications Ltd. (publisher)
Place of origin
United Kingdom (sold)

'Galway Bay'. Sheet music with a title page incorporating a shamrock leaf and a black and white photograph of the singer Jack Simpson. Lettered with title, credits, score, lyrics and copyright details. Lettered on the back with extracts of two other Box and Cox publications.


Object details

Categories
Printed Pages & Sheets
Entertainment & Leisure
Music
Object type
Sheet Music
TitleGalway Bay
Materials and techniques
Offset lithography in green and black
Paper
Printing Ink
Offset Lithography
Brief description
'Galway Bay'. Sheet music with a title page incorporating a shamrock leaf and a black and white photograph of the singer Jack Simpson. Offset lithography in green and black. Published by Box and Cox Publications Ltd., Great Britain, 1947.
Physical description
'Galway Bay'. Sheet music with a title page incorporating a shamrock leaf and a black and white photograph of the singer Jack Simpson. Lettered with title, credits, score, lyrics and copyright details. Lettered on the back with extracts of two other Box and Cox publications.
Dimensions
  • Folded to height: 27.6cm
  • Folded to width: 21.6cm
Measurements taken from Registry File.
Marks and inscriptions
  • Lettered with title, credits, score, lyrics and copyright details.
  • 'Featured Broadcast & Recorded by / Jack Simpson / Box and Cox Publications, Ltd., 7, Denmark Street, London. W.C.2. / Sole Selling Agents:- Francis, Day & Hunter, Ltd., 138-140, Charing Cross Road, London. WC.2 / Published by Permission of Pigott & Co. Ltd., 112 Grafton Street, Dublin. / For sale in the United Kingdom Only / 1/-' (Lettered.)
  • Lettered on the back with extracts of two other Box and Cox publications.
Credit line
Given by Kevin Edge
Production
Published by permission of Piggot & Co. Ltd., Dublin.
Subjects depicted
Music
Score
Photograph
Portrait
Singer
Shamrock
Simpson, Jack
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.1755-1990

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Record createdFebruary 23, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O190705/galway-bay-sheet-music-box-and-cox/
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