Rhames, Elizabeth

Dates Active in Dublin: 

1775–1778 [1806]

Business Type: 
Music publisher
Music seller
Address(es): 

The Sun, 16 Upper Blind Quay, c. 1775–76
16 Exchange Street, c. 1776–78 [1786] [same street, renamed]

Details: 

Also known as Elizabeth Rhimes.

Wife of Benjamin Rhames and mother of Francis Rhames.

Succeeded the business of her husband Benjamin.

Listed in the Dublin Directories (from 1777) as 'music seller and haberdasher'.

Succeeded in business by her son Francis on her death in 1778. He carried on the business in her name until 1806 after which he used his own name. The Dublin Directories list 'Elizabeth Rhames' until 1786.

[Details differ according to sources: Dix gives the dates as 1776 to 1789. Boydell (Calendar) gives the dates as 1775 to 1806. Humphries & Smith and Munter give the dates as 1775 to 1778. Note: the publisher on the Urbani publication is given as 'Mrs Rhimes'. Lawrence gives the publisher of The Devonshire Minuet erroneously as B. Rhames.]

Select Product/Work List: 

Published

  • The Devonshire Minuet for Guitar, c. 1781 (Lawrence)
  • Urbani, Peter, A Selection of Scots Songs, c. 1794 (Humphries & Smith)
    • See Also: 

    Rhames, Benjamin
    Rhames, Francis

    Source(s): 

    Dublin Directories

    Flood, W.H. Grattan, ‘Dublin Music Printing from 1750 to 1790’, The Bibliographical Society of Ireland: Short Papers, 2.5 (1923), 101–06 (p. 103)

    Dix, E.R. McC., ‘Some Dublin Music Printers and Music Sellers of the Eighteenth Century’, The Irish Book Lover, 18.1 (January/February 1930), 26–28 (p. 28)

    Humphries, Charles and William C. Smith, Music Publishing in the British Isles, from the Beginning until the Middle of the Nineteenth Century; a Dictionary of Engravers, Printers, Publishers, and Music Sellers (London: Oxford University Press, 1970), p. 272

    Boydell, Brian, A Dublin Musical Calendar 1700–1760 (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1988), p. 261

    Munter, Robert, A Dictionary of the Print Trade in Ireland: 1550–1775 (New York: Fordham University Press, 1988), p. 232

    Boydell, Barra, 'The Development of the Dublin Music Print Trade to 1800', Long Room (1996), pp.25-33 (p. 31)

    Lawrence, Thomas, ‘The History of the Guitar in Ireland 1760-1866’, 2 vols (unpublished doctoral thesis, University College Dublin, 1999), I, p. 38

    McHale, Maria, 'Music', in The Irish Book in English 1800–1891, ed. by James H. Murphy, The Oxford History of the Irish Book, IV (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. 595–601 (p. 596)

    Boydell, Brian, ‘Rhames, Benjamin (1)’, Dublin Music Trade Card Index <http://dublinmusictrade.ie/card-index>

    Boydell, Brian, ‘Rhames, Elizabeth’, Dublin Music Trade Card Index <http://dublinmusictrade.ie/card-index>

    Last Update: 20-05-2021