Drury Lane Design Collection

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Artist/Maker	Comelli, Attilio (designer)
Place of origin	London (drawn)

Costume design by Attilio Comelli for the fanmaker Elves in Cinderella at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, 1905-06.

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Categories	Entertainment & Leisure Designs Drawings
Object type	Costume design
Title	Drury Lane Design Collection (named collection)
Materials and techniques	Pen and ink and watercolour Ink Watercolour Pencil Millboard Paper Free-Hand Drawing Painting (Image-Making)
Brief description	Costume design by Attilio Comelli for the Elves in Cinderella at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, 1905, Drury Lane Design Collection.
Physical description	Costume design by Attilio Comelli for the Elves in Cinderella at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane. Figure wears a red and yellow costume with wings, and is holding a hammer and stick. Signed. Drawn on paper stuck on millboard.
Dimensions	Height: 36.8cm Width: 26.7cm
Marks and inscriptions	'Height Chest Waist Hips N.W.G / E. Bullock 4-91/2 - 30 - 241/2 - 35 - 131/2-34 / M. Piper 4-9 - 29 - 23 - 32 - 13-36 / T. Blabey 4-9 - 28 - 23 - 31 - 12-38 / M. Macarthur 4-9 - 31 - 25 - 33 - 123/4-38 / F. Russell 4-81/2 - 27 - 22 - 28 - 121/2-38 / E. Hall 4-101/2 - 30 - 25 - 32 - 131/2- (?) / Maxwell Beatty / E. Eaton 4-101/2 - 30 - 25 - 33 - 13-3 (?) / N.N.' (Written on reverse, list of actors playing the elves. Some illegible due to water damage.) 'Alias / Fanmakers / 8 ELVES' (Written in bottom right hand corner) Transliteration
Credit line	Given by George Hoare, Archivist of the Theatre Royal Drury Lane
Literary reference	Cinderella
Summary	Costume design by Attilio Comelli for the fanmaker Elves in Cinderella at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, 1905-06.
Collection	Theatre and Performance Collection
Accession number	S.1597-2010

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Record created	August 20, 2010
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1171419/drury-lane-design-collection-costume-design-comelli-attilio/

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