Signed poster advertising Iolanthe
Poster
ca.1910 (printed)
ca.1910 (printed)
| Artist/Maker |
This poster may well have been a gift to Stanley Parker from members of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, presented to him at an event in honour of him. StanleyParker worked for the company from 1909 until hs death in 1960. It is signed by members of the company including Helen Roberts, Judi Merri, Jennifer Toye, Anne Vincent, Joseph Riordan, Eileen Bradshaw, Jacqueline Mitchell, Brenda Holland, Elizabeth Shelley, Maggie Dobson, Joseph, Mercia Glossop, Vivien ‘Blossom’ Carman, Cynthia Morey, Anne Bordeaux, Anne Sessions, Sylvia Vale, Peggy Anne Jones, Daphne Gill, Kenneth Sandford, Elizabeth Mynott, Abby Hadfield, Linda Ann Hutchinson Ann Guthrie, Christine Paterson and Joan Lawrence.
The image features Private Willis in the final scene of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera Iolanthe,wearing the fairy wings he sprouts before marrying the Fairy Queen and flying away to Fairyland. The poster is printed by Stafford & Company, possibly around 1910 to 1920, as a 'stock poster', meaning a poster that could be bought by any company performing the opera to be overprinted with specific details of the production.
The image features Private Willis in the final scene of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera Iolanthe,wearing the fairy wings he sprouts before marrying the Fairy Queen and flying away to Fairyland. The poster is printed by Stafford & Company, possibly around 1910 to 1920, as a 'stock poster', meaning a poster that could be bought by any company performing the opera to be overprinted with specific details of the production.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | Signed poster advertising Iolanthe (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Colour lithograph on paper |
| Brief description | Poster advertising Iolanthe by Gilbert and Sullivan signed by members of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company from a variety of different years. Colour lithograph published by Stafford & Co. Ltd. |
| Physical description | Poster advertising Iolanthe printed with the name of the opera and illustrated with an image of Private Willlis sprouting wings. Behind him is a frieze with images of other characters from the opera - Phyllis, Strephon, the Fairy Queen, the Lord Chancellor and three Lords |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Signed by performers who worked for the company for a variety of different years |
| Credit line | Bequeathed by Peter Parker |
| Object history | This poster was inherited by Peter Parker, who bequeathed it to the museum, from his father Stanley Parker who was employed by the Savoy Hotel as a junior clerk in May 1909, straight from school. From that job, on the death of Helen D'Oyly Carte in 1913, he was appointed by Rupert D'Oyly Carte to understudy Mr George A Richardson who managed the theatre from November 1911 to February 1915. In 1913 Stanley Parker became Rupert and (later) Bridget D'Oyly Carte's private secretary, and secretary of the Savoy Theatre Ltd., and the Opera Company. |
| Summary | This poster may well have been a gift to Stanley Parker from members of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, presented to him at an event in honour of him. StanleyParker worked for the company from 1909 until hs death in 1960. It is signed by members of the company including Helen Roberts, Judi Merri, Jennifer Toye, Anne Vincent, Joseph Riordan, Eileen Bradshaw, Jacqueline Mitchell, Brenda Holland, Elizabeth Shelley, Maggie Dobson, Joseph, Mercia Glossop, Vivien ‘Blossom’ Carman, Cynthia Morey, Anne Bordeaux, Anne Sessions, Sylvia Vale, Peggy Anne Jones, Daphne Gill, Kenneth Sandford, Elizabeth Mynott, Abby Hadfield, Linda Ann Hutchinson Ann Guthrie, Christine Paterson and Joan Lawrence. The image features Private Willis in the final scene of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera Iolanthe,wearing the fairy wings he sprouts before marrying the Fairy Queen and flying away to Fairyland. The poster is printed by Stafford & Company, possibly around 1910 to 1920, as a 'stock poster', meaning a poster that could be bought by any company performing the opera to be overprinted with specific details of the production. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | S.1052-2021 |
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| Record created | September 6, 2021 |
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