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H Beard Print Collection

Print
ca. May 1913 (published)
Artist/Maker
The Sphere (An Illustrated Newspaper for the Home) (publisher)
Matania, Fortunino (artist)
Place of origin
London (published)

Illustration for part III of Wagner's The Nibelungen Ring, Siegfried in which 'Siegfried, the mortal who knows not fear, wakes the daughter of Wotan with a kiss'. Siegfried was performed at Covent Garden and featured Peter Cornelius as Siegfried and Madame Saltzmann-Stevens as Brunnhilde. Two illustrated articles on 'Game Hunting in British East Africa' and 'At the Zoo' are printed on the reverse. Published in The Sphere.


Object details

Categories
Entertainment & Leisure
Prints
Object type
Print
TitleH Beard Print Collection (named collection)
Materials and techniques
print, ink on paper
Paper
Printing Ink
Print-Making
Painting
Brief description
Illustration for part III of Wagner's The Nibelungen Ring, Siegfried in which 'Siegfried, the mortal who knows not fear, wakes the daughter of Wotan with a kiss'. Published in The Sphere, ca. May 1913, Harry Beard Collection.
Physical description
Painted illustrations, re-produced and printed across four pages of the The Sphere newspaper.
Dimensions
  • Print size height: 36.2cm
  • Print size width: 50.5cm
Subjects depicted
Cornelius, Peter
Engel, Werner (Herr)
Fonss, Johannes (Herr)
Kiess, August
Kappel, Gertrud
Petzl-Perard, Louise (Madame)
Kirkby Lunn, Louise
Literary references
  • Göetterdaemmerung
  • The Ring
  • Ring Cycle
Summary
Illustration for part III of Wagner's The Nibelungen Ring, Siegfried in which 'Siegfried, the mortal who knows not fear, wakes the daughter of Wotan with a kiss'. Siegfried was performed at Covent Garden and featured Peter Cornelius as Siegfried and Madame Saltzmann-Stevens as Brunnhilde. Two illustrated articles on 'Game Hunting in British East Africa' and 'At the Zoo' are printed on the reverse. Published in The Sphere.
Other number
F.129-47 - H Beard collection numbering
Collection
Theatre and Performance Collection
Accession number
S.4867-2009

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Record createdOctober 15, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1138128/h-beard-print-collection-print-matania-fortunino/
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