Music cover sheet: a performer on a stage, leaning over the orchestra pit, hands clasped together, looking at the conductor; below at right, the conductor holds his baton in the air; beyond, members of the orchestra, and the neck of a 'cello or double bass glimpsed; composition as a vignette on a title page for a song, dedicated to madame mercier, conceived by éléonore bonnaire and émélie bécat, with words by villemer & flormel (?) and music by emile duhem; french text above and below the vignette. Lithograph. Date: 1872-1895 (circa). Dimensions: Height: 341 mm (sheet); Width: 267 mm. Medium: paper. Collection: British Museum. Mon chef d'orchestre (BM 1916,0417.2)
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