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Blow Your Own Trumpet

Drawing
11/08/1943 (produced)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Watercolour design for the drop-curtain of Peter Ustinov's 'Blow Your Own Trumpet', produced by the Old Vic Theatre at the Playhouse Theatre, London. Inscribed in pencil with the names of the characters and signed in ink by the artist.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleBlow Your Own Trumpet
Materials and techniques
Watercolour drawing with indian ink wash
Brief description
Design for the drop-curtain for Peter Ustinov's 'Blow Your Own Trumpet', at the Playhouse Theatre, London. Great Britain, 1943.
Physical description
Watercolour design for the drop-curtain of Peter Ustinov's 'Blow Your Own Trumpet', produced by the Old Vic Theatre at the Playhouse Theatre, London. Inscribed in pencil with the names of the characters and signed in ink by the artist.
Dimensions
  • Height: 15in
  • Width: 19.875in
Dimensions taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Engraving Illustration and Design & Department of Paintings, Accessions 1946. London: Published under the Authority of the Ministry of Education, 1949.
Marks and inscriptions
  • Signed in ink 'Feliks Topolski'.
  • Inscribed in pencil with the names of the characters
Credit line
Given by the Artist
Bibliographic reference
Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Engraving Illustration and Design & Department of Paintings, Accessions 1946. London: Published under the Authority of the Ministry of Education, 1949.
Collection
Accession number
E.62-1946

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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