On an Old Harpsichord

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On an Old Harpsichord

Poet(s)

Gandar, W. B.

Unsigned

Credits

Metadata research and editing

DVPP Project Team

Source

Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Series 4 9:441, 368, 8 June 1872.

First line

Its varnish cracked, its paintings scarred

Authorship

Unsigned

Document status

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Notes and attribution research

Poet attribution: Chambers’s Journal ledger names Gandar as the author but indicates that payment of 15s for the poem but refused (NLS Dep 341/368). In fact, Gandar died in June 1872. (AC)

DVPP id

Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 6828

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Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

On an Old Harpsichord