Program for the last performance of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company's first London repertory season at the Savoy Theatre, London. The program consisted of Act I of The Yeomen of the Guard, Act II of The Gondoliers, Act II of Patience, a scene from…
Inscribed copy of a volume of eight librettos of Gilbert's comic operas. Gilbert inscribed the front endpaper with a to-line quotation from Patience beginning "Sad is that woman's lot who year by year...," signed and dated it "6 June 1907." Vera…
Full length photograph of Alice Barnett in elaborate dress with peacock design bowing bass viol on photographer's card mount of Elliott & Fry, London. Mount is marked "Miss Alice Barnett in 'Patience or Bunthorne's Bride' Opera Comique."
Nearly full length photograph of Leonora Braham in flowered hats with milk pail under left arm on photographer's card mount of Elliott & Fry, London. Mount is marked "Miss Leonora Braham in 'Patience or Bunthorne's Bride' Opera Comique."
Full length photograph of Frank Thornton, Durward Lely, and Richard Temple in aesthetic attire each pointing to a flower in his left hand on photographer's card mount of Elliott & Fry, London.
Standard Theatre edition of the libretto for Gilbert & Sullivan's aesthetic opera Patience; or, Bunthorne's Bride including six full page illustrations of characters in the opera. Authorized copyright edition.
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…
Full length photograph of Laura Joyce as Lady Jane in aesthetic dress with crane design, holding bow to bass viol, on photographer's card mount of Houseworth's Celebrities, San Francisco. Mount is marked "Laura Joyce as Lady Jane in Patience,…
Nearly full length photograph of John Howson as Reginald Bunthorne in dramatic pose before a wall, clutching a book to his left side, on photographer's card mount of Houseworth's Celebrities, San Francisco. Mount is marked "John Howson as…