The David and Annabelle Stone Gilbert and Sullivan Collection

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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 urging the Mendelsohn Scholarship Committee to extent Arthur Sullivan's grant for a third year of study at Leipzig.

Autograph album owned by pianist Diana Ashton with inscriptions by fellow students at Leipzig Conservatoire. It contains a page inscribed by Arthur…

Autograph letter regarding arrangements for the upcoming performance of Sullivan’s music for Shakespeare’s The Tempest at the Crystal Palace, London.

Piano score of Arthur Sullivan's incidental music to Shakespeare's The Tempest, arranged for four hands.

Conductor's score for Arthur Sullivan's Overture di Ballo, for full orchestra.

Portrait photograph of Arthur Sullivan, on photographer's card mount by Topley, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, autographed below the image "Arthur Sullivan…

Collection of eleven songs in elaborate bound volume with text by Alfred Tennyson, music by Arthur Sullivan.

Autograph manuscript full score of On Shore and Sea, dramatic cantata for large orchestra, soloists and chorus. The manuscript is displayed open to a…

Portrait photograph of Arthur Sullivan, on photographer's card mount by Elliott & Fry, London

Portrait photograph of Tom Taylor, on photographer's card mount by John & Charles Watkins, London

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