Arthur Sullivan's calling card
description: Small calling printed in script letters "Sir Arthur Sullivan" (center) and "1 Queen's Mansions | Victoria Street S.W." (lower left). Signed by Sullivan on reverse "With best wishes for 1889, A. S."
creator: Sullivan, Arthur, 1842-1900 (writer)
source: David & Annabelle Stone Gilbert & Sullivan Collection
date: undated
format: Calling card

Command performance concert program
description: Two-color engraved program for command performance concert at Buckingham Palace, conducted by Arthur Sullivan. Program featured four scenes from Sullivan's dramatic cantata The Golden Legend.
creator: Sullivan, Arthur, 1842-1900 (composer, conductor)
source: David & Annabelle Stone Gilbert & Sullivan Collection
publisher: Buckingham Palace
date: 1893-06-05
contributor: Ortner & Houle, London (printer)
rights: Public domain. There are no known restrictions.
format: Concert program

The Absent-minded Beggar Special Edition de Luxe
description: Four pages of facsimile music manuscript for the song "The Absent-Minded Beggar" in decorative cover, with photographs of Arthur Sullivan and Rudyard Kipling.
creator: Sullivan, Arthur, 1842-1900 (composer), Kipling, Rudyard 1865-1936 (writer), Ridgways, Ltd. (publisher)
source: David & Annabelle Stone Gilbert & Sullivan Collection
publisher: Ridgways, Ltd. (London)
date: undated
contributor: R. Caton Woodville (artist)
rights: Public domain. There are no known restrictions.
format: Souvenir facsimile of music manuscript

Portrait photograph of Arthur Sullivan
description: Portrait photograph of Arthur Sullivan, on photographer's card mount by Chancellor, Dublin
creator: Chancellor & Son (photographer)
source: David & Annabelle Stone Gilbert & Sullivan Collection
publisher: Chancellor & Son, Dublin
date: undated
rights: Public domain. There are no known restrictions.
format: Large cabinet photograph

Arthur Sullivan's Funeral
description: Order of Service for the funeral of Sir Arthur Sullivan at the Chapel Royal, St. James's Palace. Last page deals with interment at St. Paul’s Cathedral and includes four stanzas of Sullivan’s anthem “Brother, thou art gone before us,” from The Martyr of Antioch, to be “sung by the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Savoy Theatre.”
creator: Chapel Royal, St. James's Palace
source: David & Annabelle Stone Gilbert & Sullivan Collection
publisher: Chapel Royal, St. James's Palace
date: 11/27/1900
rights: Public domain. There are no known restrictions.
format: Order of service

Warne's Christmas Annual "The 5 Alls"
description: Volume of stories, poems, cartoons, burlesques, puzzles, containing several contributions by W. S. Gilbert, including the burlesque Ruy Blas, the cartoon The History of the Gentleman Who was Born at an Advanced Age, and a chapter of The 5 Alls titled "The Lawyer's Story." The volume is displayed open to the first two pages of Gilbert's Ruy Blas.
creator: Hood, Tom, 1835-1874 (editor)
source: David & Annabelle Stone Gilbert & Sullivan Collection
publisher: Frederick Warne & Co., London
date: 1866
contributor: Savill & Edwards, London (printer)
rights: Public domain. There are no known restrictions.
format: Christmas Annual

Tom Hood's Comic Annual
description: Four volumes of stories, poems, cartoons, and puzzles, each containing several contributions by W. S. Gilbert. The Annual for 1873 also includes a story by Mark Twain. The volume is displayed open to Gilbert's two-page cartoon "Mr. Peters Takes a Bath at Boulogne."
creator: Hood, Tom, 1835-1874 (editor)
source: David & Annabelle Stone Gilbert & Sullivan Collection
publisher: Fun Office, London
date: 1870/1873
contributor: Dalziel Bros., Camden Press, London (printer)
rights: Public domain. There are no known restrictions.
format: Bound volume of four annuals

Spirit of Fun Polka
description: This composition was published as a tribute to the comic magazine Fun, to which W. S. Gilbert was a leading contributor from 1861 to 1871. The figure in cap and bells (lower right) represents the magazine’s prominent rival, Punch.
creator: de Lille, Gaston (composer)
source: David & Annabelle Stone Gilbert & Sullivan Collection
publisher: Metzler & Co., London
date: undated
contributor: Concanan, Alfred (cover artist)
rights: Public domain. There are no known restrictions.
format: Dance music with illustrated cover

Portrait photograph of W. S. Gilbert
description: Portrait photograph of seated W. S. Gilbert by Fradelle & Marshall, London. Matted and framed, signed on the matte by Gilbert.
creator: Fradelle & Marshall (photographer)
source: David & Annabelle Stone Gilbert & Sullivan Collection
publisher: Fradelle & Marshall, London
date: undated
rights: Public domain. There are no known restrictions.
format: Large photograph signed on matte

Dulcamara; or, The Little Duck and the Great Quack
description: First edition libretto of W. S. Gilbert's extravaganza Dulcamara; or, The Little Duck and the Great Quack. Gilbert’s first acknowledged stage work, Dulcamara was a burlesque of Donizetti’s opera L’Elisir d’Amore. It was produced at the St. James’s Theatre, London, 29 December 1866.
creator: Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), 1836-1911 (author)
source: David & Annabelle Stone Gilbert & Sullivan Collection
publisher: Strand Printing & Publishing Co.
date: 1866
rights: Public domain. There are no known restrictions.
format: Libretto