Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Rutland Barrington (George Rutland Barrington Fleet) ('Rutland Barrington as Sir Despard Murgatroyd. Ruddigore, 1887') NPG D43074

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Fred Roe

Barrington made his Gilbert and Sullivan début in 1877 as Dr Daly in The Sorcerer. He went on to play many of the leading baritone roles including Captain Corcoran in HMS Pinafore and Pooh-Bah in The Mikado. His casting as Archibald Grosvenor, the 'idyllic poet' and 'infallible' ideal of manly beauty, in Patience typified Gilbert's conviction that comedy worked best when played seriously. Gilbert assessed Barrington thus: 'He's a staid, stolid swine, and that's what I want.' Patience was the opening production... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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