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Print

ca. 1925 (made)
Artist/Maker
Aubrey Hammond (artist)
Place of origin
Great Britain (made)

Watercolour costume design for Miss Fay Compton as The Lady in 'The Man with a Load of Mischief', produced at the Haymarket Theatre in London.


Object details

Categories
Drawings
Theatre
Designs
Object type
Print
Materials and techniques
watercolour
Paper
Drawing
Brief description
Drawing by Aubrey Lindsay Hammond, costume design for Miss Fay Compton as The Lady in 'The Man with a Load of Mischief', produced at the Haymarket Theatre in London, reproduced as plate CVI in 'Robes of Thespis,' watercolour, Great Britain, ca. 1925
Physical description
Watercolour costume design for Miss Fay Compton as The Lady in 'The Man with a Load of Mischief', produced at the Haymarket Theatre in London.
Dimensions
  • Height: 51.4cm
  • Width: 33.6cm
Dimensions taken from Department of Prints and Drawings, Theatre Costume Design in the Victoria and Albert Museum Colour Microfiche, Emmett Microform, 1983.
Marks and inscriptions
'Aubrey Hammond' (Signed)
Credit line
Given by Mr Rupert Mason
Object history
This is an alternate design for The Lady for when she is wearing dark hair. The bonnet of the costume was to be removed almost immediately after the Entrance.
Subjects depicted
Costume Design
Fay Compton
Association
Haymarket Theatre
Bibliographic references
  • Department of Prints and Drawings, Theatre Costume Design in the Victoria and Albert Museum Colour Microfiche, Emmett Microform, 1983
  • Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1928. London: HMSO, 1929
  • Sheringham, George and R. Boyd Morrison for Rupert Mason. Robes of Thespis; costume designs by modern artists. London: E. Benn limited, 1928.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.622-1928

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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