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Patience

Watercolour
ca.1900 (painted)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Henry Lytton as Bunthorne in Patience which opened at the Savoy Theatre, 1881. Pencil, watercolour and gouache, annotated with an inscription in ink by W.S. Gilbert (1836-1911).


Object details

Category
Object type
TitlePatience (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Gouache on paper
Brief description
Henry Lytton as Bunthorne in Patience which opened at the Savoy Theatre, 1881. Pencil, watercolour and gouache, annotated with an inscription in ink by W.S. Gilbert (1836-1911).
Physical description
Portrait of Henry Lytton as Bunthorne in the opera Patience. Full-length male figure wearing a yellow jacket and matching knickerbocker trousers and stockings; black shoes; white collar and blue bow. The figure holds a white lily in his left hand.
Dimensions
  • Height: 22.7cm
  • Width: 15.3cm
Marks and inscriptions
'Why, what a most particularly pure young man this pure young man must be. WSG' (Inscription by W.S. Gilbert (1836-1911). In his hand, with his initials. He also wrote 'Copyright' and what could be the letter 'B' under the name of the artist inscribed in pencil.)
Subjects depicted
Association
Literary reference<i>Patience</i>
Summary
Henry Lytton as Bunthorne in Patience which opened at the Savoy Theatre, 1881. Pencil, watercolour and gouache, annotated with an inscription in ink by W.S. Gilbert (1836-1911).
Bibliographic reference
The Theatre Museum by Alexander Schouvaloff, preface and intoduction by Catherine Haill. Scala Books, 1987, ISBN 1 870248 03 1
Collection
Accession number
S.2594-1986

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Record createdJune 24, 2003
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