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Theatre Costume

1910 (made)

Short jacket in bright bistre yellow sateen painted with stylised tulips and foliage in faded red and green and deep pink infill in the neck. Wide, legged trousers of bright crimson cotton, the legs bound at thigh, knee and calf with ultramarine cotton bands or gold braid, painted with gold (faded) round 'commas'.

Object details

Categories
Object type
Parts
This object consists of 2 parts.
(Some alternative part names are also shown below)
  • Theatre Costume
  • Dance Costume
  • Jacket
  • Theatre Costume
  • Dance Costume
  • Trousers
Materials and techniques
Brief description
Costume for an Adolescent in Fokine's ballet Scheherazade, Diaghilev Ballet, 1910.
Physical description
Short jacket in bright bistre yellow sateen painted with stylised tulips and foliage in faded red and green and deep pink infill in the neck. Wide, legged trousers of bright crimson cotton, the legs bound at thigh, knee and calf with ultramarine cotton bands or gold braid, painted with gold (faded) round 'commas'.
Dimensions
  • S.2471 1986 ( jacket) length: 867mm (Note: Measured laid flat)
  • S.2471 1986 ( jacket) width: 510mm (Note: Measured laid flat.)
  • A ( trousers) length: 1010mm (Note: Measured laid flat, across the waist.)
  • A ( trousers) width: 432mm (Note: Measured laid flat, across the waist.)
  • Weight: 6.05kg (Note: Weighed in box, alongside S.546-1989 and S.548-1989.)
Collection
Accession number
S.2471-1986

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Record createdJuly 1, 2009
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