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Gladys Calthrop costume design for Cavalcade

Costume Design
1931 (drawn)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

This costume is for Mary Clare as Jane Marryott during railway station scene of Noel Coward's Cavalcade. The play follows the lives of the Marryott family, and their servants, over three decades. It premiered at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in 1931.

Gladys Calthrop (1894-1980) was an English set and costume designer. Born Gladys Treeby in Devon, Calthrop married, and later separated from, Everard E. Calthrop. She met Noel Coward in Italy during 1921, they subsequently became friends and worked together on many plays. Their first collaboration was on The Vortex in 1924 for which Calthrop designed both sets and costumes. She worked in both London and New York.

Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleGladys Calthrop costume design for Cavalcade (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Watercolour over pencil drawing
Brief description
Costume design by Gladys Calthrop for Jane Marryott in Railway Station scene of Noel Coward's 'Cavalcade', 1931.
Physical description
Costume design depicting a royal blue soft duvetyn dress under corduroy coat same colour. Costume also includes hat with feathers and large black bag. There are notes written around the page including a swatch of blue fabric. Signed to the right of image in ink.
Dimensions
  • Height: 56cm
  • Width: 38cm (approx)
Marks and inscriptions
  • Inscribed in pen: /JANE/ /RAILWAY STATION 9 1918/ /QUICK CAHNGE TO INTERIOR/ /ROYAL BLUE SOFT DUVETYN/ / DRESS UNDER/ / CORDUROY COAT SAME COLOUR/ /TRIMMED WITH FITCH/ SMALL CLOSE HAT/ /BLUE VELVET/ /BLACK BAG/LARGE/ /SIGNED IN PEN/

    Note
    Written in top right hand corner



  • Transliteration

Credit line
Bequeathed by Gladys Calthrop
Subject depicted
Associations
Literary referenceCavalcade
Summary
This costume is for Mary Clare as Jane Marryott during railway station scene of Noel Coward's Cavalcade. The play follows the lives of the Marryott family, and their servants, over three decades. It premiered at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in 1931.

Gladys Calthrop (1894-1980) was an English set and costume designer. Born Gladys Treeby in Devon, Calthrop married, and later separated from, Everard E. Calthrop. She met Noel Coward in Italy during 1921, they subsequently became friends and worked together on many plays. Their first collaboration was on The Vortex in 1924 for which Calthrop designed both sets and costumes. She worked in both London and New York.
Other numbers
  • 60 (in red) - numbered on sheet
  • THM/52 - Archive number
Collection
Accession number
S.504 -2012

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Record createdMay 17, 2012
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