Not currently on display at the V&A

Costume Design

ca. 1874 (made)
Artist/Maker

One page of original costume designs by E.W. Godwin for characters in Hamlet: manuscript page, giving details of the anachronisms in Hamlet, written by E.W. Godwin on the reverse. Bound with copies of the journal, The Architect, October 1874 - October 1876.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Parts
This object consists of 2 parts.
(Some alternative part names are also shown below)
  • Costume Designs
  • Page
  • Manuscript
Materials and techniques
Ink on paper
Brief description
One page of original costume designs by E.W. Godwin for characters in Hamlet: manuscript page, giving details of the anachronisms in Hamlet, written by E.W. Godwin on the reverse. Bound with copies of the journal, The Architect, October 1874 - October 1876.
Object history
Manuscript pages and original costume sketches interleaved between issues of The Architect in one bound volume: S.170 to S.188-1998. This page was displayed in the exhibition 'E. W.Godwin - Aesthetic Movement Architect and Designer' at The Bard Graduate Centre in New York. The bound volume was valued at £5000.00 in 1998. Associated production: Hamlet. Playwright: William Shakespeare. Designer: E.W. Godwin. Performance category: Drama.
Subject depicted
Collection
Accession number
S.173:1, 2-1998

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Record createdOctober 7, 2010
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