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Gladys Calthrop set design for Twelfth Night

Set Design
ca. 1926 (drawn)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Set design by Gladys Calthrop for a room in Olivia's palace in Twelfth Night, for a production at the Civic Repertory Theatre in New York, 1926, Gladys Calthrop Design Collection.

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 also designed the set and costumes for several other productions, other than Coward's plays, including Shakespeare's plays. She worked in both London and New York.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleGladys Calthrop set design for Twelfth Night (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Watercolour over pencil drawing
Brief description
Set design by Gladys Calthrop for a room in Olivia's palace in Twelfth Night, for a production at the Civic Repertory Theatre in New York, 1926, Gladys Calthrop Design Collection.
Physical description
View of a room in Olivia's palace. Features a blue curtain in the centre, with purple drop. Entrance routes to other rooms are visible on either sides of the curtain. A table, sketched in pencil, features in the middle of the page. Background in light blue. Signed by the artist, lower right.
Dimensions
  • Height: 37.7cm
  • Width: 50.4cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Olivia / Dukes palace / sea coast / Olivia's house / [shut] / Olivias garden / before Olivias house / [...]ama / built steps / & 2 platforms / [clausable backings / painted curtains (entrance [acte]) / & windows / room in Olivia's palace' (Handwritten in pencil, recto.)
  • Transliteration
Credit line
Bequeathed by Gladys Calthrop
Literary referenceTwelfth Night
Summary
Set design by Gladys Calthrop for a room in Olivia's palace in Twelfth Night, for a production at the Civic Repertory Theatre in New York, 1926, Gladys Calthrop Design Collection.

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 also designed the set and costumes for several other productions, other than Coward's plays, including Shakespeare's plays. She worked in both London and New York.
Other number
THM/52 - Archive number
Collection
Accession number
S.471-2012

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Record createdMay 18, 2012
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