Set Design
1943 (Drawn)
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Garden setting at night with, to left, white Norman-style ruins, and to right deep blue green cypress trees and pink and intense blue flowering shrubs with black shadows cast on a pale blue green grass with white highlights and intense blue and blue sky; to left behind ruin a similar cypress and flowering shrub. Gouache and ink with pencil framing and captioning.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Gouache and ink with pencil framing and captioning on textured paper mounted on card |
| Brief description | Set design by W Holmes for Molly Lake's ballet Nymphenburg Garden, Ballet Guild, 1943. |
| Physical description | Garden setting at night with, to left, white Norman-style ruins, and to right deep blue green cypress trees and pink and intense blue flowering shrubs with black shadows cast on a pale blue green grass with white highlights and intense blue and blue sky; to left behind ruin a similar cypress and flowering shrub. Gouache and ink with pencil framing and captioning. |
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| Production type | Unique |
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| Credit line | Cyril W. Beaumont Bequest |
| Object history | The design by W Holmes is for the setting of Molly Lake's ballet "Nymphenburg Garden", to music by Mozart arranged by Norman Frankus and with costumes by A. Lidderdale. There is no record of a set design and it may be that wartime restrictions prevented it from being executed, or it may have been used only in some of the larger venues. The design was probably originally part of the London Archives of the Dance; the Archives never achieved an independent home and part of the collection was stored with Cyril Beaumont, where it became inextricably mixed with his own collection and came to the Museum as part of the Cyril Beaumont Bequest. |
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| Accession number | S.260-2000 |
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| Record created | May 14, 2001 |
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