Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Haddon Hall

Haddon Hall

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Original – Cover illustration by M. Browne and Herbert Railton for the October 1, 1892 Illustrated London News, showing a scene from Sydney Grundy and Arthur Sullivan's Haddon Hall

Reason: Noone will be shocked to know I'm interested in opera. (Those of you in Edinburgh: The Yeomen of the Guard, King's Theatre, all next week. I play the mysterious Citizen X, alongside the other male choristers who got the other letters from A to Z on the positioning charts.) Really ineffective promotion aside, opera was the popular theatre of its day, and it's good to have high-quality material for it. This is the cover of a newspaper from soon after the opera's premiere, making it a really good contemporary illustration of the work.

I'm afraid that the image is far too large to have a PNG copy uploaded, since I scanned at 600dpi. Sorry!

Articles in which this image appears: Haddon Hall (opera), Herbert Railton, Illustrated London News
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured_pictures/Culture,_entertainment,_and_lifestyle/Theatre, naturally.
Creator: M. Browne, Herbert Railton, with restoration and preparation work by Adam Cuerden

Support as nominator --Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 13:07, 15 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support One of the funniest Sullivan operettas I have on my iPod is Cox and Box. I crack up every time it comes on. I'd love to check out these other operas. Great work. – Kerαunoςcopia^◁_galaxies 20:13, 15 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
- Cox and Box is a lot of fun. Unfortunately, F. C. Burnand's other collaboration with Sullivan, The Contrabandista / The Chieftain, attempted an original plot (Cox and Box has pretty much all its dialogue taken directly from the Morton play Box and Cox) and F. C. Burnand is a decent lyricist, but by god is he an awful playwright. Some gorgeous music though. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 04:23, 16 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Sullivan's music is divine. I was introduced to his "Irish" Symphony over the radio this past Christmas, immediately got it at the library, ripped it and have listened to it nearly every day this year. I can't say I have the ability to appreciate Gilbert's poetry outside of his librettos. His wordplay is second to none, but my ability to appreciate floral and antediluvian language doesn't extend beyond the operas, unfortunately. I really like this image (the nom). It reminds me of Maurice Leloir's artwork for The Three Musketeers. – Kerαunoςcopia^◁_galaxies 04:47, 16 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Well, remember most of his non-lyric poetry was written right at the start of his career; Outside of the occasional musical piece for which the music is lost, the only major example of not-set-to-music poetry I can think of are the parodies of "artistic" poetry from Patience.

I have a giant full-colour Ruddigore poster published in a newspaper at the time of the first revival in 1920. It's going to be awkward as anything to get it all scanned and stitched together, but I do intend to try. =) En-wiki only, though; it's not going to be out of copyright over here for a LONG time. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 07:13, 21 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

For scanning, you could try something similar to this (youtube). (I'm pretty sure scanners work upside down, so I think he's making a bigger deal than it needs to be; the painting could by lying flat upside-up.) I thought I'd found a book of Gilbert's poetry that was illustrated in that New Yorker sort of way, but I don't remember when and what library. It was difficult as anything to read, in my opinion, lots of that words-out-of-order-to-rhyme thing going on. – Kerαunoςcopia^◁_galaxies 19:09, 21 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, god, luckily it's not nearly that tricky. It's between A3 and A2, so should take about 6 scans. This one was done in two scans, so I at least have the theory. =) Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 00:19, 22 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Support. This looks like a beautiful scan of this image. -- Ssilvers (talk) 19:21, 19 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Beautiful. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 06:08, 20 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support J Kadavoor J e e 06:00, 21 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:M. Browne - Herbert Railton - Sydney Grundy - Arthur Sullivan - Haddon Hall.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 13:12, 24 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]