Durward Lely, Scottish opera singer, in Gilbert and Sullivan's 'The Mikado' mb-code U679188ACME Dean of Lincoln (1571-1577) and

Dean of Lincoln (1571-1577) and later Archbishop of Canterbury provides information to date the book as being from the reign of Queen Elizabeth I

This appears to be an outhouse

with foreground detail of the crane winding mechanism on a platform behind the instrument

The locomotive 'Northumbrian'

The practice of this method was eventually replaced by the Indian Method because it was thought to produce unreliable noses- as Carpue recalls they were prone to turn purple or fall off entirely over cold winters

Durward Lely, Scottish opera singer, in Gilbert and Sullivan's 'The Mikado' mb-code U679188ACME Dean of Lincoln (1571-1577) andDurward Lely, Scottish opera singer, in Gilbert and Sullivan's 'The Mikado', 1887. A photograph from The Theatre, A Monthly Review, Volume IX, January to June, 1887, Carson & Comerford, London, 1887.