Template:POTD/2008-12-05

Picture of the day

An engraved scene from the Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera Trial by Jury, as illustrated in the magazine Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News of 1 May 1875. This was the pair's second collaboration and the success of this launched the famous series of thirteen further works that came to be known as the Savoy operas.Engraving credit: D. H. Friston