This design by Tanya Moiseiwitsch shows the back view of the mitre, cope and crozier, the costume worn by Harry Andrews as Cardinal Wolsey the Archbishop of Canterbury in Shakespeare's Henry VIII directed by Tyrone Guthrie that opened at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre on 15th July 1949. The production starred Anthony Quayle as Henry as Diana Wynyard as Queen Katharine, and included Paul Hansard as Sir Thomas Lovell.

Tanya Moiseiwitsch (1914-2003) was a prolific and innovative designer who produced both set and costumes for this production, staged on her interpretation of an Elizabethan stage. The critic Muriel St Clare Byrne wrote of it: 'When the audience entered the theatre, instead of seeing a curtain, they had before their eyes a lighted permanent set which remained unchanged and unhidden until the end. An excellent compromise between a platform and a picture-frame stage, it suggests a basic design which might well provide a happy and practicable solution to the problem of securing the effect of the Elizabethan stage within our modern theatres. Miss Tanya Moiseiwitsch is to be congratulated on the pleasing and dignified appearance as well as on the admirably functional qualities of this set, with its varied levels, its ample forestage, fifteen feet deep, and its well thought- out modifications and rearrangements of the gallery and the inner- stage.'

Harry Andrews (1911-1989) was a British stage, film and television actor who started his stage career at the Liverpool Playhouse in 1933 and went on to become an actor in the West End and a member of the Old Vic Theatre Company. After serving in the Royal Artillery during the second World War and becoming a Major he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1949 playing several leading roles at Stratford including Macduff in Macbeth and Don Pedro in Much Ado About Nothing. He took numerous film and television roles from 1953 until his death in 1989 and his role in Sidney Lumet's film The Hill, in which he appeared with Sean Connery, resulted in his nomination for the 1966 BAFTA award for Best British Actor.