Costume Design
1961 (painted)
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Design for Mabel in Act I of The Pirates of Penzance, showing a full length female figure wearing a flat straw hat decorated with white and blue flowers and a pale blue calf length dress patterned with dark blue spots with a deep frill at the hem and a high white lace collar and inset white lace bodice. The design is signed and inscribed with the name of the opera and the character.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Gouache on card |
| Brief description | Design by Brian Jackson for Mabel in Act I of The Pirates of Penzance by Gilbert and Sullivan, Stratford, Ontario, 1961 |
| Physical description | Design for Mabel in Act I of The Pirates of Penzance, showing a full length female figure wearing a flat straw hat decorated with white and blue flowers and a pale blue calf length dress patterned with dark blue spots with a deep frill at the hem and a high white lace collar and inset white lace bodice. The design is signed and inscribed with the name of the opera and the character. |
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| Production type | Unique |
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| Credit line | Given by Andrew Downie |
| Object history | This design was made for Tyrone Guthrie's production of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera, The Pirates of Penzance, at the Avon Theatre, Stratford, Ontario, 7 July 1961. The production subsequently toured, playing at Her Majesty's Theatre, London, in 1962 (opening on 15 February). At Stratford and on tour Mabel was played by Marion Studholme, whose husband, Andrew Downie, the production's Frederic, gave this design to the Museum. |
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| Literary reference | The Pirates of Penzance |
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| Accession number | S.222-1999 |
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| Record created | January 21, 2000 |
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