This illustration is from the 1909 printing of Savoy Operas, a illustrated compilation of four of the Gilbert and Sullivan works. The illustration depicts Hilarion, in disguise as a woman, trying to convince Ida to look on his true self more kindly:
"If it be well to droop and pine and mope,
To sigh, 'Oh, Ida! Ida!' all day long,
Then Prince Hilarion is very well."
William Russell Flint; restoration: Adam Cuerden
Illustration:This image was chosen at random from a selection of 4. (
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