The Green Room

Artistback to top

• London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company (active 1855-1922). Artist associated with 861 portraits.

Sittersback to top

• Charles William Shirley Brooks (1816-1874), Journalist and playwright. Sitter associated with 7 portraits.
• Arthur Cecil (Arthur Cecil Blunt) (1843-1896), Actor. Sitter in 9 portraits.
• George Louis Palmella Busson Du Maurier (1834-1896), Illustrator, cartoonist and novelist. Sitter in 15 portraits, Artist associated with 3 portraits.
• Mark Lemon (1809-1870), Editor of 'Punch' and playwright. Sitter in 13 portraits.
• Arthur Lewis (1846-1930), Actor-manager. Sitter in 1 portrait.
• Robert Taylor Pritchett (1828-1907), Artist. Sitter in 1 portrait.
• Henry Silver (born 1828), Writer and contributor to Punch. Sitter in 1 portrait.
• Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan (1842-1900), Composer and conductor; collaborated with Sir W.S. Gilbert. Sitter in 9 portraits.
• Tom Taylor (1817-1880), Playwright, comic writer and editor of Punch. Sitter in 13 portraits.
• Sir John Tenniel (1820-1914), Cartoonist and illustrator. Sitter in 14 portraits, Artist associated with 3 portraits.
• Dame (Alice) Ellen Terry (1847-1928), Actress. Sitter in 145 portraits.
• Kate Terry (1844-1924), Actress. Sitter in 13 portraits.
• Quintin William Francis Twiss (1835-1900), Actor. Sitter in 1 portrait.

This portraitback to top

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: 'Mr Sullivan's music is, in places, of too high a class for the grotesquely absurd plot to which it is wedded.'

Subjects & Themesback to top

• Carpets and textiles
• Events and occasions
• Group portraits
• Hats and head-attire