Beschreibung:

Six Italian Duettinos for Two Voices with an accompaniment for the Piano Forte or Harp. Composed by Nicolo Isouard, published by M. Kelly at his Musical Saloon, No. 9, Pall Mall, [1802], engraved title (with faint publisher's inkstamp to lower right), 14 (of 16) pages of engraved music, each numbered 57 at foot, lacking one leaf (pages 7-8), inscribed in brown ink to head of title 'Lady Hamilton Merton', disbound without covers, slim folio Provenance: Christies, 8 March 1978, lot 164 (part), where purchased by Desmond Burgess for �121. A copy of the Maltese composer Isouard's Six Songs for Voice and Harp, owned by Lady Emma Hamilton, at a time when she was living at Merton Place, near Wimbledon in South London, and living with both Lord Nelson and her husband Sir William Hamilton The property had been purchased by Lady Hamilton in 1801 acting on behalf of Lord Nelson, and became famous for the grand dinner parties and lavish lifestyle enjoyed by its occupants until Nelson's death at Trafalgar in 1805. (1)