Not currently on display at the V&A

Poster

1952 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Typographic.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Printed ink on paper
Brief description
Poster advertising Tiresias [and] A Mirror for Witches [and] The Sleeping Beauty [and] Coppelia [and] Donald of the Burthens [and] Daphnis and Chloe [and] Ballet Imperial [and] Les Sylphides [and] Mam'zelle Angot [and] The Three Cornered Hat [and] Symphonic Variations [and] Les Patineurs [and] Bonne-Bouche at the Royal Opera House, London, 1952
Physical description
Typographic.
Dimensions
  • Poster height: 51cm
  • Poster width: 31.9cm
  • Mount height: 78.7cm (Note: Imperial sized mount)
  • Mount width: 58.1cm (Note: Imperial sized mount)
Marks and inscriptions
  • Stamped with Enthoven collection, V.A.M. stamp.
  • Transliteration
Object history
Associated Production: Tiresias, The Sleeping Beauty, Donald of the Burthens, The Three Cornered Hat, Les Sylphides, Ballet Imperial, Daphnis and Chloe, Mam'zelle Angot, Les Patineurs, Symphonic Variations, Coppelia, Bonne-Bouche, A Mirror for Witches (4.4.1952, choreographer: Frederick Ashton). Directors: Ninette de Valois, Frederick Ashton. Conductors: John Hollingsworth, Robert Irving. Company: The Sadler's Wells Ballet, The Covent Garden Orchestra. Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London. Performance category: dance.
Production
68/70 Wardour Street, London
Collection
Accession number
S.2309-1994

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Record createdJuly 23, 2010
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