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Mizpah
Unknown, 1884, Music score, Reproduction
Mizpah
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Item no
36490
Title
Mizpah
Description
Song sheet illustration of a valse composed by Carl Olma.
Artist / maker
Unknown
Date
1884
Size
35.9 x 25.9 cm
Type
Music score
;
Reproduction
Location
Music Library
The illustration by an unknown artist is entitled Mizpah, a Hebrew word meaning watchtower. Mizpah was interpreted as a pledge made between two parties before God to watch over them, during a period of separation. This evolved in the Victorian era as a pledge made between couples before they were separated by the man going off to war. A ring was often exchanged as the material expression of the Mizpah vow and in the 1880's it became popular for a man to give to his betrothed before going off to the battlefronts of the Boar War.
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