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Costume Design

early 1930s (made)
Artist/Maker
Motley (costume designers)

Costume design for Frank Vosper as Claudius by Motley (Elizabeth Montgomery and Sophia and Margaret Harris), Hamlet, New Theatre, November 14th 1934

Object details

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Entertainment & Leisure
Designs
Object type
Costume design
Brief description
Costume design for Frank Vosper as Claudius by Motley (Elizabeth Montgomery and Sophia and Margaret Harris), Hamlet, New Theatre, November 14th 1934
Gallery label
(October 2013)
9
COSTUME DESIGN FOR HAMLET
1934

Motley (sisters Margaret and Sophia Harris, and their friend Elizabeth Montgomery) designed sets and costumes for many of John Gielgud’s productions in the 1930s. The costumes for Gielgud’s Hamlet were made of scenery canvas, hand-sprayed with dyes and metallic pigments. The Court wore dark colours, and Claudius’s costume emphasised his physical stature and suggested wealth and power.

Play by William Shakespeare, 1600–1
New Theatre (now the Noël Coward Theatre), London

Paper, pencil, watercolour, gold and silver paint
Designed by Motley (Margaret Harris, 1904–2000, Sophia Harris,
1900–66, and Elizabeth Montgomery, 1902–93)

Given by the British Theatre Museum Association
Museum no. S.625-1987

Collection
Theatre and Performance Collection
Accession number
S.625-1987

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Record createdJune 30, 2011
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1224601/costume-design-motley/
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