Costume Design

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Artist/Maker	Alfred Aaran Wolmark (artist)
Place of origin	Britain (made)

Design for a theatre costume for a character in 'Hamlet.'

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Categories	Theatre Designs Drawings Shakespeare
Object type	Costume design
Materials and techniques	Pencil, watercolour, body-colour, gold pigment Pencil Watercolour Body-Colour Gold Drawing
Brief description	[A Guard]. One of 14 designs of characters in Shakespeare's 'Hamlet', by Alfred Aaran Wolmark (1877-1961), 1915.
Physical description	Design for a theatre costume for a character in 'Hamlet.'
Dimensions	Height: 6.375in Width: 2.125in Dimensions taken from Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1951 London: HMSO, 1962.
Marks and inscriptions	'Alfred A. Wolmark' (Most signed) (and inscribed with the names of the characters. With the artists's monogram stencilled on the original mounts.)
Credit line	Given by the artist
Literary reference	'Hamlet' by William Shakespeare
Bibliographic reference	Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1951 London: HMSO, 1962
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.466-1951

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Record created	June 30, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O594448/costume-design-alfred-aaran-wolmark/

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