"How earnestly precious" : trade card featuring the character of the Lady Saphir from Gilbert and Sullivan's opera "Patience" Print

Accession number: 
PML 198739.5
Published: 
[place not identified] : [publisher not identified], [188-?]
Description: 
1 print : chromolithograph ; 105 x 62 mm
Credit: 
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2021.
Notes: 

One of a set of six trade cards featuring characters from Gilbert and Sullivan's opera "Patience".
A template trade card lacking advertising text and blank on the verso.
With the artist's monogram, "HBSJ".
Library's copy stamped "880" on verso.

Summary: 

Image depicts the character of Lady Saphir from the Gilbert and Sullivan opera "Patience" next to a clump of sunflowers; with an empty box on the lower half of the card intended to accommodate advertising text.

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