Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir William Schwenck Gilbert NPG x127431

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Elliott & Fry

This photograph was taken during his year of estrangement from Sullivan following the so-called 'carpet quarrel' of 1890, when Gilbert took D'Oyly Carte to court for financial mismanagement and Sullivan sided with Carte. Gilbert was quick to anger. When knighted in 1907, he was furious about being described as a playwright instead of a dramatist. He spent his retirement in his country estate, Grim's Dyke. He drowned aged seventy-four having dived into his lake to assist a distressed swimmer. His memorial on the Victoria... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.