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Gladys Calthrop design

Costume Design
1931 (drawn)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

This costume is for Mary Clare as Mrs. Marryott during Act I Scene I of Noel Coward's Cavalcade. The play follows the lives of the Marryott family, and their servants, over three decades. It premiered at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in 1931.

Gladys Calthrop (1894-1980) was an English set and costume designer. Born Gladys Treeby in Devon, Calthrop married, and later separated from, Everard E. Calthrop. She met Noel Coward in Italy during 1921, they subsequently became friends and worked together on many plays. Their first collaboration was on The Vortex in 1924 for which Calthrop designed both sets and costumes. She worked in both London and New York.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleGladys Calthrop design (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Watercolour over pencil drawing
Brief description
Costume design by Gladys Calthrop for Mrs. Marryott in Act I Scene ii of Noel Coward's 'Cavalcade', 1931.
Physical description
Costume design depicting a yellow cape embroidered with lace and ruched edges. Costume also includes white long gloves. There are notes written around the page. Signed to the right of image in black ink.
Dimensions
  • Height: 56cm
  • Width: 38cm (approx)
Marks and inscriptions
  • Inscribed in ink and pencil: /SK C 32/ /ACT 1 SCENE I/AFTER THE THEATRE/ MARY CLARE/ MRS MARRIOTT/ /SHORT SATIN EMBROIDERED CAPE/ /WITH FINE BLACK LACE/ /FRILLS OF PLEATED SHIFFON WITH RUCHED EDGES/ IN YELLOW SPRAY/ /WHITE COCK FEATHER BAND WIDE (CROSSED OUT)/ /'?TWO FALLS OF PLEATED CHIFFON/ RUCHED AND FLOUNCED/ HOLDING WHITE LONG GLOVES/ /(WORN WITH YELLOW BROCADE EVENING DRESS/ /WIG AS ON DRESS DESIGN/ /PENCILLED NOTES AGAINST DESIGN /SIGNED IN INK/ (Written in top right hand corner)
  • Transliteration
Credit line
Bequeathed by Gladys Calthrop
Subject depicted
Associations
Literary referenceCavalcade
Summary
This costume is for Mary Clare as Mrs. Marryott during Act I Scene I of Noel Coward's Cavalcade. The play follows the lives of the Marryott family, and their servants, over three decades. It premiered at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in 1931.

Gladys Calthrop (1894-1980) was an English set and costume designer. Born Gladys Treeby in Devon, Calthrop married, and later separated from, Everard E. Calthrop. She met Noel Coward in Italy during 1921, they subsequently became friends and worked together on many plays. Their first collaboration was on The Vortex in 1924 for which Calthrop designed both sets and costumes. She worked in both London and New York.
Other numbers
  • 43 (in red) - numbered on sheet
  • THM/52 - Archive number
Collection
Accession number
S.493 -2012

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Record createdMay 8, 2012
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