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

Files

3.2.6.jpg

Citation

“Patience trade cards with D'Oyly Carte overprint,” Gilbert & Sullivan 2017, accessed December 22, 2024, https://gilbertandsullivan2017.gmu.edu/items/show/820.

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