This design by Tanya Moiseiwitsch was for a costume worn by Diana Wynyard as Queen Katherine in scene 9 of Shakespeare's Henry VIII directed by Tyrone Guthrie that opened at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre on 15th July 1949. The production starred Anthony Quayle as Henry as Diana Wynyard as Queen Katherine, and included Paul Hansard as Sir Thomas Lovell.

Tanya Moiseiwitsch (1914-2003) was a prolific and innovative designer who produced both set and costumes for this production, staged onher interpretation of an Elizabethan stage. The critic Muriel St Clare Byrne wrote of it: 'When the audience entered the theatre, instead of seeing a curtain, they had before their eyes a lighted permanent set which remained unchanged and unhidden until the end. An excellent compromise between a platform and a picture-frame stage, it suggests a basic design which might well provide a happy and practicable solution to the problem of securing the effect of the Elizabethan stage within our modern theatres. Miss Tanya Moiseiwitsch is to be congratulated on the pleasing and dignified appearance as well as on the admirably functional qualities of this set, with its varied levels, its ample forestage, fifteen feet deep, and its well thought- out modifications and rearrangements of the gallery and the inner- stage.'

Diana Wynyard (1906-1954) for whom this costume was designed was a celebrated British film and theatre actor who appeared in the film of Noel Coward's Cavalcade in 1933 and after the war went on to become a leading lady at the Stratford Memorial Theatre playing many of the great Shakespearean women including Portia, Gertrude, Lady Macbeth, Katherine the Shrew, Desdemona, Katherine of Aragon and Beatrice.