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Cigar box label: Patience
Inner cigar box label for "Patience" cigars, design in full color, featuring two vignettes from Patience. On the left in an oval is the milkmaid Patience, her left elbow resting on her milk pail, in the upper right is the poets Bunthorne, surrounded…
Cigar box label: Pinafore
Outer cigar box label for "Pinafore" cigars, design in blue and beige, with "Pinafore" in banner at top, scene from H.M.S. Pinafore beneath with Josephine, Ralph Rackstraw, Tom Tucker in foreground.
Clara Merivale as Yum-Yum, Kate Forster as Pitti-Sing, and Geraldine St. Maur as Peep-Bo in The Mikado
Full length photograph of Clara Merivale, Kate Forster, and Geraldine St. Maur in kimonos in front of painted Japanese set on photographer's card mount of Atelier Bellach, Leipzig.
Command performance concert program
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.
Costume design for Hollee Beebee in The Nautch Girl
Original costume design by Percy Anderson for Hollee Beebee, a character in The Nautch Girl; or, The Rajah of Chutneypore, a comic opera written by George Dance and Frank Desprez, with music by Edward Solomon. It was first performed at the Savoy…
Costume design for Robin Oakapple in Ruddigore
Watercolor over pencil drawing on card of George Grossmith as Robin Oakapple in first act of Ruddigore. Drawing is marked "Ruddigore" and "Mr. Grossmith." Additional pencil notations front and back of sizes.
Courtice Pounds Colonel Fairfax in The Yeomen of the Guard
Full length photograph of Courtice Pounds in early dress with tassled belt on photographer's card mount of Barraud, London.
Cox and Box; or, The Long Lost Brothers
Program for the second public performance of Cox and Box; or, The Long Lost Brothers, at the Theatre Royal, Manchester. Performance was part of a benefit program in aid of the widow and children of Punch artist C. H. Bennett. Sullivan conducted. …
Der Mikado; ober, Ein Tag in Titipu
Program, Mr. R. D’Oyly Carte’s englisher Opera-Gesellschaft in Der Mikado; ober, Ein Tag in Titipu. Typeset text with hand-colored woodcut illustrations.
Dr. Ambrosius--His Secret
Libretto of Richard D'Oyly Carte's opera di camera in two acts Dr. Ambrosius, His Secret. "Written by H. B.," the libretto is founded on T. Haynes Bayley's farce Tom Noddy's Secret. It was privately performed at the St. George’s Opera House,…