Walrus

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Artist/Maker	Rowell, Kenneth (designer)
Place of origin	Britain (made)

Costume design.

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Categories	Dance Theatre Costume Theatre Designs Drawings
Object type	Costume design
Titles	Walrus (assigned by artist) Alice through the Looking Glass (series title)
Materials and techniques	Coloured papers, watercolour and body colour on toned paper Watercolour Gouache Watercolour Drawing
Brief description	Costume design (1 of 11) by Kenneth Rowell for the Walrus in a dramatised version of Lewis Carroll's Alice Through the Looking Glass, 1952.
Physical description	Costume design.
Dimensions	Height: 30.48cm Width: 22.86cm Taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings Accessions 1953. London: HMSO, 1963.
Object history	A dramatised version by Felicity Douglas of Lewis Carroll's Alice Through the Looking Glass was produced at the Kenton Theatre, Henley-on-Thames, 20 December 1952.
Literary reference	<i>Through the Looking Glass</i> by Lewis Carroll, 1871
Bibliographic reference	Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings Accessions 1953 London: HMSO, 1963
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.250-1953

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Record created	June 30, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O591265/walrus-costume-design-rowell-kenneth/

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