vicfangirlguide: A promotional photograph from Gilbert and Sullivan’s opera ‘Patience’. In their comic operettas W.S Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan satirised various aspects and well known figures of Victorian society. In ‘Patience’ they mocked the Aesthetic Movement of the 1870s and 80s, especially its chief adherents such as the poet Algernon Charles Swinburne, the painter James Macneill Whistler and the writer Oscar Wilde.

vicfangirlguide:

A promotional photograph from Gilbert and Sullivan’s opera ‘Patience’. In their comic operettas W.S Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan satirised various aspects and well known figures of Victorian society. In ‘Patience’ they mocked the Aesthetic Movement of the 1870s and 80s, especially its chief adherents such as the poet Algernon Charles Swinburne, the painter James Macneill Whistler and the writer Oscar Wilde.