Sweet Rest in Heaven

Catalogue Number: 026
Size: 8.5” x 21.75”
Location in House: Sunroom porch

This beautiful frame with delicate, spindly decorative bars that extend beyond the basic frame has been lucky to survive unbroken for more than a century. Maybe it has a history of few or careful owners. Flourishes on the typeface make it hard to differentiate between S, R and H. 

This phrase first appears as a song title in, “Musical review and Musical World,” Vol X1-1860 published by Mason Brothers in New York.

The American Tune Book complied and published by Dr. Lowell Mason in 1869, attributes, “Sweet Rest in Heaven,” to Wm.B. Bradbury.

It is also included as Hymn 921 in, “Collection of the Hymns for use of the people called Methodists,” by the Rev John Wesley, published in London in 1875.

Sheet music for “Sweet Rest in Heaven,” is attributed to J. Dunbar in 1880.    

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157 Sweet Rest in Heaven