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The Gondoliers

Costume Design
1958 (designed)
Artist/Maker
Goffin, Peter (designer)
Place of origin
Great Britain (designed)

Two sheets of cream paper with sections of fabric pinned to them, these samples are connected with costume designs that Peter Goffin produced for characters in The Gondoliers, Princes Theatre, 1958.


Object details

Categories
Entertainment & Leisure
Designs
Theatre
Object type
Costume design
TitleThe Gondoliers (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Sections of silk, wool and cotton secured to paper with metal pins.
Paper
Pencil
Wool
Cotton (Textile)
Silk
Pen
Metal
Writing
Weaving
Brief description
Two sheets of cream paper with sections of fabric pinned to them, these samples are connected with costume designs that Peter Goffin produced for characters in The Gondoliers, Princes Theatre, 1958
Physical description
Two sheets of cream paper with sections of fabric pinned to them, these samples are connected with costume designs that Peter Goffin produced for characters in The Gondoliers, Princes Theatre, 1958. The two sheets are secured to one another with a pin in the top left hand corner. Two sample of material are pinned to the first sheet, the first, a blue and white striped glazed cotton, the second a mustard yellow wool. On the second sheet, are three scraps of ribbed silk, in tones of yellow and grey, and a further section of dark blue wool. Both sheets are covered with handwritten annotation in pencil and biro.
The samples of material are connected with the costumes of the Duchess (Act I), Casilda (Act I), Duke (Act II), Luiz (Act II), Kings (Act II) and Casila (Act II) Cloak.
Dimensions
  • Height: 19.9cm
  • Width: 12.1cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Goffin/58' (Handwritten annotation in pencil, signature of artist, bottom left hand corner.)
  • 'Gondolier Act II (addition)'/'John Cartier - finished for Jordon MacKenzie' (Handwritten pencil annotation on the rear of the design.)
  • 'Chest = 38/Collar 15½/Sleeve-/Outside arm 22½' (Handwritten pencil annotation on the rear of the design.)
Credit line
Given by Dame Bridget D'Oyly Carte.
The V&A wishes to acknowledge the generous support given by The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, which facilitated the cataloguing of the D’Oyly Carte Archive designs in 2015/16.
Summary
Two sheets of cream paper with sections of fabric pinned to them, these samples are connected with costume designs that Peter Goffin produced for characters in The Gondoliers, Princes Theatre, 1958.
Collection
Theatre and Performance Collection
Accession number
S.2533-2015

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Record createdJanuary 22, 2016
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1329111/the-gondoliers-costume-design-goffin-peter/
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