Angel puppet

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Artist/Maker	John Thirtle (maker) Richard Gill (director)
Place of origin	United Kingdom (made)

Painted wooden jelutong head, hands and torso. Jointed wooden arms with rods attached to the hands. Has grey and white cotton yarn hair and black beads for eyes with a carved mouth and eyebrows. Wearing long white silky robe. Wings are separate and made of shaped wire with white cotton net.

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Categories	Entertainment & Leisure Puppetry
Object type	Puppet
Parts	This object consists of 2 parts. (Some alternative part names are also shown below) Wings Puppet Angel Puppet
Title	Angel puppet (generic title)
Materials and techniques	Carved jelutong wood with painted decoration, sewn and glued decoration, shaped wire with cotton net Jelutong Silk Beads Wire Cotton Net Cotton Yarn Carved Painted Glued Shape
Brief description	Puppet representing an angel. Made by John Thirtle for Richard Gill's play The Prince and the Puppets in 1970.
Physical description	Painted wooden jelutong head, hands and torso. Jointed wooden arms with rods attached to the hands. Has grey and white cotton yarn hair and black beads for eyes with a carved mouth and eyebrows. Wearing long white silky robe. Wings are separate and made of shaped wire with white cotton net.
Dimensions	From the top of the crown to the bottom of the base height: 96cm From arm to arm width: 45 Height of wing height: 67cm Width of wing width: 53cm
Content description	Angel was made for Richard Gill's play The Prince and the Puppet in 1970.
Credit line	Lanchester Collection
Subjects depicted	Angel Creation
Literary references	The puppet Angel is based on the biblical figure.
Collection	Theatre and Performance Collection
Accession number	S.1035:1-2011

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Record created	March 15, 2012
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1244604/angel-puppet-puppet-john-thirtle/

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