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Swan Lake

Costume Design
Mid 20th century (designed)
Artist/Maker
Hurry, Leslie (designers)
Place of origin
London (drawn)

Annotated costume design by Leslie Hurry for a female dancer in Act III of Swan Lake. Hurry first designed Swan Lake for Sadler's Wells Ballet (Now The Royal Ballet) in 1943 and it stayed in repertoire for 30 years. The character is not given but is possibly for one of the prospective brides/princesses, particularly given the annotation ‘Suggest skirt variation of colour and decoration in the group – gold pattern on chiffon-gauze?’.


Object details

Categories
Designs
Theatre
Entertainment & Leisure
Object type
Costume design
Titles
  • Swan Lake (generic title)
  • Le Lac des Cygnes (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Ink, pencil and watercolour on paper mounted on board.
Ink
Pencil
Watercolour
Paper
Millboard
Designing
Brief description
Costume design by Leslie Hurry for a female dancer in Act III of Swan Lake
Physical description
Annotated costume design by Leslie Hurry (1909-1978) for a dancer in Act III of Swan Lake. The costume shows a high-waisted, calf length green-blue-brown dress with elaborate sleeves of ribbons or brocade with pearls. The dancer wears a crown and jewelled choker necklace.
Dimensions
  • Paper height: 39.4cm
  • Paper width: 28.4cm
  • Board height: 42.3cm
  • Board width: 31cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'RIBBON / ON NET BASE / WITH PEARLS' (Inscribed in ink, upper right, with a line connecting to the shoulder in the additional drawing of the sleeve.)
  • 'Ribbon / or brocade / Net base' (Inscribed in ink on the right side, with lines connecting to the puff sleeve in the additional detailed sketch.)
  • 'Detail of / Ribboned sleeve / keep iregular / in lengths.' (Inscribed in ink, lower right of sleeve detail.)
  • 'Suggest skirt variation / of colour and decoration / in the group. / gold pattern on chiffon - Gauze?' (Inscribed in ink, lower right corner.)
  • 'Act III' (Inscribed in ink, lower left corner.)
Credit line
Given by the estate of David Dean
Summary
Annotated costume design by Leslie Hurry for a female dancer in Act III of Swan Lake. Hurry first designed Swan Lake for Sadler's Wells Ballet (Now The Royal Ballet) in 1943 and it stayed in repertoire for 30 years. The character is not given but is possibly for one of the prospective brides/princesses, particularly given the annotation ‘Suggest skirt variation of colour and decoration in the group – gold pattern on chiffon-gauze?’.
Collection
Theatre and Performance Collection
Accession number
S.491-2018

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Record createdMarch 10, 2019
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1482811/swan-lake-costume-design-hurry-leslie/
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