Costume Design

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Artist/Maker	John Piper (designer)
Place of origin	Britain (made)

Costume design, one of three on one sheet.

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Categories	Designs Clothing Theatre
Object type	Costume design
Materials and techniques	Drawing in pencil, Indian ink, coloured chalks, water-colour and Chinese white Pencil Ink Chalk Watercolour Chinese White Drawing
Brief description	Costume design (one of three) by John Piper for Montiverdi's opera Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, May 1951.
Physical description	Costume design, one of three on one sheet.
Dimensions	Sheet height: 38.9cm Sheet width: 28.6cm Dimensions taken from Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1952. London: HMSO, 1963.
Subject depicted	Costume
Bibliographic reference	Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1952. London: HMSO, 1963.
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.9:3-1952

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Record created	June 30, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O593960/costume-design-john-piper/

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