Rice, John

Dates Active in Dublin:

1775–1796

Business Type:

Music seller

Musical instrument maker: harpsichord

Musical instrument maker: unspecified

Publisher

Address(es):

13 Dame Street, 1775–78
53 Dame Street, 1778–80
5 College Green, 1780–91
2 College Green, 1791–96

Details:

Listed in the Dublin Directory as 'music seller'. Flood also states that he was a harpsichord maker.

[Dates and addresses differ according to sources: Humphries & Smith gives the dates and addresses as above. The Dublin Directories give 5 College Green in 1784 only. Hogan gives the College Green addresses at the dates above only].

Source(s):

Dublin Directories

Flood, W.H. Grattan, 'Dublin Harpsichord and Pianoforte Makers of the Eighteenth Century', The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 5th ser., 39.2 (1909), 137–45 (p. 143)

Hogan, Ita Margaret, Anglo-Irish Music 1780–1830 (Cork: Cork University Press, 1966), p. 103

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. 273

Kerry, Frances P., 'The Music Scene in Dublin During the Late Eighteenth Century (1790–1800)' (unpublished masters thesis, St Patrick's College, Maynooth, 1994), p. 32

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

Last Update: 17-05-2018

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