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Hamlet

Jewellery Design
1969 (made)
Artist/Maker
Hurry, Leslie (designers)

Jewellery design by Leslie Hurry for Humphrey Searle's opera, Hamlet, 1969


Object details

Categories
Entertainment & Leisure
Designs
Opera
Shakespeare
Object type
Jewellery design
TitleHamlet (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Ink, crayon and felt tip pen on paper
Brief description
Jewellery design by Leslie Hurry for Humphrey Searle's opera, Hamlet, 1969
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Ophelia / Necklace / this may need a very clever fastener -clasp / as it will have to be / removed on stage' (Textual information. Upper centre and upper right hand side.)
  • 'Leslie Hurry' (Signature. Lower left hand side.)
  • 'Hamlet Opera Humphrey Searle' (Textual information. Lower right hand side.)
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of The Linbury Trust
Object history
Associated production: Hamlet (opera). Designer: Leslie Hurry. Director: Donald McWhinnie. Singer: Anne Howells. Performing company: Royal Opera. Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, 18.4.1969. Performance category: Opera. Anne Howells sang the role of Ophelia in this production. Jewellery designs for this production: S.1056 to S.1059-1995.
Subjects depicted
Costume
Stage Jewellery
Ophelia
Associated objects
Collection
Theatre and Performance Collection
Accession number
S.1056-1995

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Record createdOctober 7, 2010
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1173423/hamlet-jewellery-design-hurry-leslie/
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