Costume design by Percy Anderson for the Chorus from a production of The Pirates of Penzance, Princes Theatre, 1919-20

Watercolour and bodycolour over pencil on paper. The design features three female Chorus members at the seaside. They each have a number above her head. Figure 18 is wearing a pale green gown with white fichu, white petticoat showing, and a pale green bonnet. Figure 19 is depicted from the back in a purple and green striped dress with a matching shawl, her white petticoat showing, and a purple bonnet. Figure 20 is seated and wearing a white dress with pink ribbon detailling and a straw hat with pink ribbons. There is cheesecloth fabric attached around the edge of the rendering.

On the reverse is a paper with the body measurements for each actress playing the characters depicted on the front.

Underneath is another unidentified rendering that has been cut to be reused.

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.

Costume design by Percy Anderson for the Chorus from a production of The Pirates of Penzance, Princes Theatre, 1919-20.

S.2907-2015