Sheet Music: If My Poems Had Wings

Identification and Creation

Object Number: M8510
People: Lithographer Gerlier
Composer Eduard Lassen
Lyricist Victor Marie Hugo, French (1802 - 1885)
Title: Sheet Music: If My Poems Had Wings
Other Titles: Original Language Title: Si mes vers avaient des ailes
Classification: Prints
Work Type: print
Date: 1857
Culture: French
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/265854

Location

Location: Level 2, Room 2200, European and American Art, 17th–19th century, The Emergence of Romanticism in Early Nineteenth-Century France

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Physical Descriptions

Medium: lithograph on cream wove paper
Technique: Lithograph
Dimensions: sheet: 34.8 x 27.4 cm (13 11/16 x 10 13/16 in)
image (on cover): 15.3 x 14.9 cm (6 x 5 7/8 in)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from Harvard College Library
Accession Year: 1921
Object Number: M8510
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description: two-sheet folded fascicle

Exhibition History

32Q: 2200 19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/04/2024 - 04/07/2025

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M8510: Sheet Music: If My Poems Had Wings