Cover title.
Caption title: My Molly Asthore.
First line: As down on Banna's banks...
For voice and piano.
Engraved.
"Composed for and sung by Miss Catherine Hayes".
Cover has lithographic portrait, assumed to be of L.H. Lavenu. Illustrated by Edmund Thomas.
Publication date from G. Skinner (2011), 'Toward a general history of Australian musical composition: first national music, 1788-c.1860', Sydney Conservatorium of Music, p. 513.
Bound in: Owner bound volume of assorted songs, in the collection of Rouse Hill House & Farm, 1850-1864.
The Rouse Hill House & Farm sheet music collection is a large multi-generational domestic collection compiled by members of the Rouse and Terry families and their network and dates between the early 19th and 20th centuries. It includes Australian composed and published material as well music published predominantly in Britain.
Full text available online at Internet Archive
Provenance: Rouse Hill House & Farm sheet music collection.
