Patience trade cards with D'Oyly Carte overprint
Title
Patience trade cards with D'Oyly Carte overprint
Subject
Patience, D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, W. S. Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, Standard Theatre, New York, advertising, trade cards
Description
Four trade cards depicting characters from Patience and quotes from the opera: Bunthorne ("In a rapt ecstatic way"), Jane ("I am soulfully intense), Grosvenor ("A very daisy") and Saphir (How earnestly precious"). Each has overprint in advertising box "Standard Theatre | R. D'Oyly Carte's Opera Co. | in Patience."
Source
David & Annabelle Stone Gilbert & Sullivan Collection
Date
1881
Rights
Public domain. There are no known restrictions.
Format
Stock advertising trade cards with advertising box
Identifier
3.2.6
Physical Dimensions
each 2-1/2 x 4-1/8 inches
Citation
“Patience trade cards with D'Oyly Carte overprint,” Gilbert & Sullivan 2017, accessed November 21, 2024, https://gilbertandsullivan2017.gmu.edu/items/show/820.