Papers relating to Prince Albert’s personal life and enthusiasms
Prince Albert, Prince Consort (1819-61)
Pretty baby : July 31, 1841 1841
4 leaves in 2 conjoint pairs: unnumbered; ff.3v-4 blank. Staves hand-ruled with stave-pen, 12 to a page in 3s | 31.0 x 24.2 x 0.1 cm (book measurement (conservation)) | RCIN 1047135
![Pretty baby : July 31, 1841 / the poetry by Viscount Fordwick [?] aged 7 years ; the music by Albert](https://albert.rct.uk/sites/default/files/styles/rctr-scale-1300-500/public/collection-online/a/0/1009205-1608286222.jpg?itok=zaJBkOVb "Pretty baby : July 31, 1841 / the poetry by Viscount Fordwick [?] aged 7 years ; the music by Albert")
Prince Albert, Prince Consort (1819-61)
Pretty baby : July 31, 1841 / the poetry by Viscount Fordwick [?] aged 7 years ; the music by Albert 1841
![Pretty baby : July 31, 1841 / the poetry by Viscount Fordwick [?] aged 7 years ; the music by Albert](https://albert.rct.uk/sites/default/files/styles/rctr-scale-1300-500/public/collection-online/4/1/1009206-1608286224.jpg?itok=9x_rUgIn "Pretty baby : July 31, 1841 / the poetry by Viscount Fordwick [?] aged 7 years ; the music by Albert")
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Queen Victoria noted that the words of this song, scored for Voce and Forte piano (voice and piano) were by ‘Viscount Fordwich (aged 7 years)’. This was Francis Cowper, elder son of 6th Earl Cowper. He was born in 1834, and became 7th Earl in 1856. His parents were close friends of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, who left Panshanger, the Cowper’s country house in Hertfordshire, on 31 July 1841, after a brief visit. That evening they: ‘Rested, read despatches, & then we played on the piano’. (RA QVJ 31 July 1841)
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Creator(s)
View person pagePrince Albert, Prince Consort (1819-61) (composer)
Francis Cowper, 7th Earl Cowper (1834-1905) (author)
Subject(s)
Prince Albert, Prince Consort (1819-61) -
31.0 x 24.2 x 0.1 cm (book measurement (conservation))
33.0 x 1.0 cm (folder)
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Pretty baby : July 31, 1841 / the poetry by Viscount Fordwick [?] aged 7 years ; the music by Albert.
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Object type(s)
- printed & manuscript material
- music scores
- manuscript music scores
- manuscripts
- music scores
- containers
- folders
Subject(s)
- Arts, Recreation, Entertainment & Sport
- Music
- Vocal music
- Vocal chamber music. Songs. Ballades. Lieder
- Vocal music
- Music
- printed & manuscript material
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