The David and Annabelle Stone Gilbert and Sullivan Collection
Title
The David and Annabelle Stone Gilbert and Sullivan Collection
Description
The Gilbert and Sullivan collection began about forty years ago when David’s wife Ann, jump-started the collection with gifts of the Vanity Fair prints of Gilbert and Sullivan and the collection’s first Gilbert autograph letter. This website displays 241 items of the vast collection that shows Mr. Stone’s dedication and love of the comedic geniuses. The Stone collection highlights many differing objects from W.S. Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, and Richard D’Oyly Carte’s life and beyond. The building of the collection was made possible by the friendship, camaraderie, and support of many enthusiastic and knowledgeable scholars and fellow collectors on both sides of the Atlantic.
Collection Items
Autograph letter signed : Julius Benedict to George Smart
Autograph letter urging the Mendelsohn Scholarship Committee to extent Arthur Sullivan's grant for a third year of study at Leipzig.
Autograph album: Diana Ashton
Autograph album owned by pianist Diana Ashton with inscriptions by fellow students at Leipzig Conservatoire. It contains a page inscribed by Arthur Sullivan with an autograph musical quote from his own string quartet, "A Romance."
Autograph letter signed: Arthur Sullivan to George Grove
Autograph letter regarding arrangements for the upcoming performance of Sullivan’s music for Shakespeare’s The Tempest at the Crystal Palace, London.
The Music to Shakespeare's Tempest
Piano score of Arthur Sullivan's incidental music to Shakespeare's The Tempest, arranged for four hands.
Portrait photograph of Arthur Sullivan
Portrait photograph of Arthur Sullivan, on photographer's card mount by Topley, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, autographed below the image "Arthur Sullivan 1880."
The Window; or The Song of the Wrens
Collection of eleven songs in elaborate bound volume with text by Alfred Tennyson, music by Arthur Sullivan.
Autograph manuscript score: On Shore and Sea
Autograph manuscript full score of On Shore and Sea, dramatic cantata for large orchestra, soloists and chorus. The manuscript is displayed open to a portion of the opening chorus "The Windlass ply."
Portrait photograph of Arthur Sullivan
Portrait photograph of Arthur Sullivan, on photographer's card mount by Elliott & Fry, London
Portrait photograph of Tom Taylor
Portrait photograph of Tom Taylor, on photographer's card mount by John & Charles Watkins, London