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Costume Design

ca. 1874 (made)
Artist/Maker

One page of original designs by E.W. Godwin illustrating a published article on "The Architecture and Costume of Shakespeare's Plays" in the journal, The Architect: one of a series of manuscript pages and original costume sketches interleaved between issues of The Architect in one bound volume covering the period, October 1874 - October 1876.


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Ink on paper
Brief description
One page of original designs by E.W. Godwin illustrating a published article on "The Architecture and Costume of Shakespeare's Plays" in the journal, The Architect: one of a series of manuscript pages and original costume sketches interleaved between issues of The Architect in one bound volume covering the period, 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. The volume was loaned to the exhibition 'E. W.Godwin - Aesthetic Movement Architect and Designer' at The Bard Graduate Centre in New York, and displayed so as to show S.173:1-1998. The bound volume was valued at £5000.00 in 1998. Associated production: Playwright: William Shakespeare. Designer: E.W. Godwin. Performance category: Drama.
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Collection
Accession number
S.178-1998

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Record createdOctober 7, 2010
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