Wheatley, Samuel

Dates Active in Dublin: 

1744–1763?

Business Type: 
Music engraver
Printer
Publisher
Address(es): 

Salutation Alley, opposite Crane Lane, Cork Hill, 1745
Mr Costigan's, ironmonger, at the Frying Pan, Anglesea St, opposite Cope St, 1763

Details: 

[Details differ according to sources: Humphries & Smith state that Wheatley was an engraver (giving the example below), Munter states that he was a publisher and Boydell (Calendar) queries if Wheatley was a printer.]

Select Product/Work List: 

Engraved

  • Marella, G.B., Six Sonatas for a Violin and Basse. Dedicated to Aemilia Reb. Forster [...] Op. 1, 1753 (Humphries & Smith)
    • Source(s): 

    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. 329

    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), pp. 294–95

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

    Last Update: 12-02-2017