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Costume Design

late 19th century
Artist/Maker
Croce, P (Costume designer)

Large green cabbage covering the body to top thighs, with green legs protruding from the base and green shoes; from the fet a pale brown shadow. Pen and ink and watercolour over pencil signed P.Cro … and annotated "dgge".


Object details

Categories
Entertainment & Leisure
Dance
Designs
Object type
Costume design
Materials and techniques
Pencil, pen and ink and watercolour on paper
Pencil
Pen and Ink
Watercolour
Paper
Drawing (Image-Making)
Brief description
Costume design by P Croce for a Cabbage in the ballet in Amor, late 19th century.
Physical description
Large green cabbage covering the body to top thighs, with green legs protruding from the base and green shoes; from the fet a pale brown shadow. Pen and ink and watercolour over pencil signed P.Cro … and annotated "dgge".
Dimensions
  • At left hand side height: 211mm
  • At top edge width: 137mm
The design has been irregularly cut down
Production typeUnique
Marks and inscriptions
  • "dgge" (Textual information; Upper left hand corner; Handwriting; Pen and ink)
  • "P. Cro" (ce) (Signature; Lower right hand corner; Handwriting; Watercolour)
  • "Amor / costume del Ballo" (Textual information; Italian; Reverse top edge; Handwriting; Pen and ink; Unknown)
    Translation
    "Love, ballet costume"
  • "1688/10" (Reverse upper left hand corner; Handwriting; Pencil; Unknown)
  • "quo 102/79" (crossed out) / "quo 112/80" (Reverse centre; Handwriting; Pencil; Unknown)
Credit line
Cyril W. Beaumont Bequest
Object history
This costume was designed for the ballet Amor, and may relate to the ballet with choreography by Luigi Manzotti premiered at La Scala, Milan, in 1886. The design came to the Museum as part of the Cyril Beaumont Bequest and was proably acquired by him as possible illustration in his various publications on ballet design. Four of the designs (this design, S.354-2001, with S.232-2000, S.234-2000 and S.235-2000) from the group of ten in the collection were reproduced in Beaumont's Five Centuries of Ballet Design, published by The Studio Ltd., London, nd.

Historical significance: An example of a costume in the shape of a vegetable from one of the large spectacular realistic productions which characterised Italian ballet in the late 19th century.
Subjects depicted
Costume
Vegetable
Cabbage
Collection
Theatre and Performance Collection
Accession number
S.354-2001

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Record createdJune 12, 2001
Record URL
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