Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

The Green Room NPG x18489

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company

Cox and Box marked Sullivan's first departure from the serious music with which he had made his name. With a libretto by F.C. Burnand, this one-act comic opera was performed five years before Sullivan's first collaboration with Gilbert. This photograph records a charity performance at the Adelphi Theatre, London, staged by Punch magazine to benefit the widow of former colleague Charles Bennett (1829-67). Ironically, Gilbert, writing a review in rival magazine Fun, anticipated the criticism later to be levied at his own libretti:... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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