The Patience Quadrille
Sheet Music Cover
1881 (printed)
1881 (printed)
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Music sheet cover for The Patience Quadrille by Eugene D'Albert (1864-1932), based on the score by Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900) to Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera Patience. It is illustrated with scenes from the opera, which show Lady Jane playing the cello and wearing a 'High Art' peacock-patterned gown, Reginald Bunthorne reading poetry to the Aesthetic Maidens outside Castle Adamant, and an image of three officers turned Aesthetic men.
Object details
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| Title | The Patience Quadrille (published title) |
| Materials and techniques | Colour lithograph |
| Brief description | Illustrated music sheet cover for The Patience Quadrille by Eugene D'Albert (1864-1932), based on the score by Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900) to the comic opera Patience by Gilbert and Sullivan. Colour lithograph by M.& N. Hanhart, possibly from a design by H.G. Banks. Published by Chappell & Co., 1881. |
| Physical description | Music sheet cover for The Patience Quadrille illustrated with a colour lithograph image of Lady Jane playing the cello wearing a 'High Art' peacock-patterned gown (top centre), Reginald Bunthorne reading poetry to the Aesthetic Maidens outside Castle Adamant (right centre), and an image of three officers turned Aesthetic men, (bottom left). |
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| Credit line | Given by Dame Bridget D'Oyly Carte |
| Object history | The composer of The Patience Quadrille, Eugene D'Albert, was also trusted as a musician by Sullivan since he was given the task of scoring the overture of the opera Patience. At the time Eugene D'Albert was a 17 year old student at the National Training School and winner of that year's Mendelssohn Scholarship. |
| Summary | Music sheet cover for The Patience Quadrille by Eugene D'Albert (1864-1932), based on the score by Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900) to Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera Patience. It is illustrated with scenes from the opera, which show Lady Jane playing the cello and wearing a 'High Art' peacock-patterned gown, Reginald Bunthorne reading poetry to the Aesthetic Maidens outside Castle Adamant, and an image of three officers turned Aesthetic men. |
| Other number | THM/73/19/14 - Archive number |
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| Accession number | S.632-2010 |
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| Record created | May 18, 2010 |
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