8 sheets of designs, notes and fabric swatches relating to one of the costumes designed by Hugh Durrant for Julian Clary as the Spirit of the Bells as a half-timbered house (or Liberty's Department Store) in Dick Whittington, London Palladium, 14 December 2017.

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One of 8 sheets of designs, notes and fabric swatches relating to one of the costumes designed by Hugh Durrant for Julian Clary as the Spirit of the Bells as a half-timbered house in Dick Whittington, London Palladium, 14 December 2017. Front view showing the whole costume with its straw thatch hat and cockerel-topped weather vane, thatched and half-timbered costume with central clock face, black and white gauntlets, and staff held in his right hand topped with a bell. Signed and dated 'Durrant 2017' and inscribed: 'Mr. Julian Clary as Half-Timbered House'

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One of 8 sheets of designs, notes and fabric swatches relating to one of the costumes designed by Hugh Durrant for Julian Clary as the Spirit of the Bells as a half-timbered house in Dick Whittington, London Palladium, 14 December 2017. Photocopy of a three-quarters view of the front of the costume, with the thatch and wings of plaited straw labelled by Hugh Durrant. Signed and dated: 'Durrant 2017' and inscribed: 'Mr Julian Clary as Half-Timbered House'

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One of 8 sheets of designs, notes and fabric swatches relating to one of the costumes designed by Hugh Durrant for Julian Clary as the Spirit of the Bells as a half-timbered house in Dick Whittington, London Palladium, 14 December 2017. Diagram showing front and side views of the structure of the costume and how it sits on a figure, inscribed by Hugh Durrant with a note on its construction and the importance of Julian Clary being able to get his hands through the windows

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One of 8 sheets of designs, notes and fabric swatches relating to one of the costumes designed by Hugh Durrant for Julian Clary as the Spirit of the Bells as a half-timbered house in Dick Whittington, London Palladium, 14 December 2017. Diagram showing a shoulder turret with measurement, inscribed by Hugh Durrant with a note about the maximum width of the shoulder piece construction

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One of 8 sheets of designs, notes and fabric swatches relating to one of the costumes designed by Hugh Durrant for Julian Clary as the Spirit of the Bells as a half-timbered house in Dick Whittington, London Palladium, 14 December 2017. Diagram showing the roof and shoulder turrets as a collar piece, and the roof extending beyond the walls, inscribed by Hugh Durrant with notes about the padding, clock, raffia, boa representing grass, and the construction

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One of 8 sheets of designs, notes and fabric swatches relating to one of the costumes designed by Hugh Durrant for Julian Clary as the Spirit of the Bells as a half-timbered house in Dick Whittington, London Palladium, 14 December 2017. A note inscribed by Hugh Durrant relating to sturdy fastening methods for the costume that still allow for quick changes

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One of 8 sheets of designs, notes and fabric swatches relating to one of the costumes designed by Hugh Durrant for Julian Clary as the Spirit of the Bells as a half-timbered house in Dick Whittington, London Palladium, 14 December 2017. Nine swatches of fabric, labelled by Hugh Durrant, that for the main walls noting its source as the fabric suppliers Brovick Fabrics in Soho, costing £41.76 per metre

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One of 8 sheets of designs, notes and fabric swatches relating to one of the costumes designed by Hugh Durrant for Julian Clary as the Spirit of the Bells as a half-timbered house in Dick Whittington, London Palladium, 14 December 2017. Full colour drawing of clock face on the house with the hands at twenty seven minutes past twelve, surmounted by three tower bells

Given by the artist

This is a set of designs, notes and fabric swatches for one of the ten costumes designed by Hugh Durrant and worn by Julian Clary as the Spirit of the Bells in the pantomime Dick Whittington at the London Palladium, 14 December 2017. As the star of the show Julian Clary wore what Claire Allfree described in her Daily Telegraph review as: 'a parade of exquisitely outlandish outfits', each based on his role as the Spirit of the Bells but working as gloriously ebullient visual metaphors relating to London, or to the Spirit's exploits in the action. This design is for a half-timbered house, also referred to in one of the sketches by Hugh Durrant as Liberty's - the Tudor-revival shop Liberty of London, rebuilt in 1924 in Great Marlborough Street using the timbers of two ships.

Dick Whittington was a lavishly designed production, the second pantomime mounted in the West End by Qdos after Cinderella, December 2016, which brought pantomime back to the theatre with great success after a gap of thirty years. Dick Whittington was followed in December 2018 by Snow White, each featuring Julian Clary as an outlandish and extravagantly dressed character wearing Hugh Durrant's witty and inventive costumes. In Cinderella he played Dandini, and in Snow White, the Man in the Mirror.

Hugh Durrant is an award-winning London-based theatre designer whose costumes for Julian Clary and Elaine Paige in Dick Whittington were nominated for best costume designs of 2017 in the Olivier Awards, April 2018. All other costumes in the production were designed by Ron Briggs, with sets by Ian Westbrook

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