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An illustration for the Gilbert and Sullivan play Princess Ida, completed by William Russell Flint (1880–1969) for the 1909 printing of Savoy Operas, a compilation of four Gilbert and Sullivan works. Flint began illustrating at age 14, working as an apprentice lithographer while studying at the Royal Institute of Art, Edinburgh. After a time as a medical illustrator, Flint found work with The Illustrated London News. He produced several literary illustrations, including for the Savoy Operas and a 1912 edition of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales.

This illustration presents the beginning of the luncheon at the end of Act II, in which drunken shenanigans accidentally reveal the gender of the disguised men. "Enter the 'Daughters of the Plough', bearing Luncheon."

See another illustrationIllustration: William Russell Flint; restoration: Adam Cuerden