Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | Text begins: Uplift a thousand voices full and sweet ...
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| Other uniform titles: | Gerald N. Wachs Collection of Nineteenth Century English Poetry.
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| Other authors / contributors: | Rollason, Edwin, approximately 1834-1909, designer.
Newsome, Charles, approximately 1831- manufacturer.
International Exhibition (1862 : London, England)
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| Provenance: | Inscription on backing of frame: To Josephine Treffry Hoblyn from mother.
University of Chicago Library's copy: state 1.
Mounted on yellow silk and framed.
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| Notes: | Also published under the title "Ode for the opening of the Inernational Exhibition, 1862."
"Newsome manufr. Coventry; E. Rollason desr."
With manufacturer's intertwined monogram at top of design, title at bottom, and featuring illustration of the Crystal Palace; manufactuer and designer's statement at head of ribbon; another design exists with the title at the top, manufacturer's intertwined monogram at the bottom, and large woven decorative initials "U", "T," "P," "O;" manufactuere and designer's statement at tail of ribbon.
Two states known of this design known: state 1 with head and tail designs woven in cream, gold, and rose; cream border; state 2 with head and tail designs woven in red, blue, green, purple, and yellow; purple and yellow border.
Godden, G.A. Stevengraphs and other Victorian silk pictures, pages 404, 406
Gerald N. Wachs Collection of Nineteenth-Century Poetry, entry 433
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| Summary: | Woven silk souvenir ribbon of Tennyson's Ode for the opening of the 1862 International Exhibition. Tennyson's Ode on the opening of the Exhibition was written at the request of Francis Richard Sanford, organizing secretary for the Exhibition, and set to music by William Sterndale Bennett to be sung at the opening ceremony. Charles Newsome registered the ribbon design with the Patent Office on 31 May 1862. Consult Letters of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1987), volume 2, page 281, Wise, T.J. A bibliography of the writings of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, volume 1, page 167-170, and Godden.
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