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First Night

Drawing
1952 (made)
Artist/Maker
Atkinson, Eric (artist)
Place of origin
London (made)

Pen and ink drawing, entitled First Night, showing a theatre box at the Old Vic, by Eric Atkinson, 1952


Object details

Categories
Entertainment & Leisure
Drawings
Object type
Drawing
TitleFirst Night (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Pen and ink on paper
Brief description
Pen and ink drawing, entitled First Night, showing a theatre box at the Old Vic, by Eric Atkinson, 1952
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'First Night / E.N. Atkinson' (Signature & textual information. Lower left hand corner.)
  • 'To Philip / Best Wishes / Eric 1952' (Signature & textual information. Reverse of mount.)
  • Drawn by Eric Atkinson from/the back of the stalls at the / Old Vic during an interval / on the first night of the / Bristol Company's production / of "The Two Gentlemen of Verona". / Afterwards I took Eric to meet / Bill Squire in his dressing-room. / The result was two paintings / exhibited in the Royal Academy / Summer show 1952, one based / on this drawing and called / "First Night", the other of / Bill Squire in his costume / as the Duke of Milan. The / second one I purchased. P.C.G. (Textual information. Reverse of mount.)
Credit line
Bequeathed by Philip Clement Gibbons
Object history
Philip Clement Gibbons recorded the circumstances of the drawing's creation in a note on the back of the mount (see Marks & Inscriptions). See also S.4&5-1993 by Eric Atkinson.
Subjects depicted
Audiences
Audience Spaces
Associated object
S.5-1993
Collection
Theatre and Performance Collection
Accession number
S.825-1997

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Record createdOctober 7, 2010
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1173894/first-night-drawing-atkinson-eric/
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