Backcloth
ca.1880 (painted)
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Painted backcloth on a wooden batten representing a scene of a Bavarian-style castle with blue spirires and steps leading up to the castle in the foreground. The castle is flanked with dark green cypress trees. The cloth consists of two canvases attached back to back, with images on both sides.The other side [S.204:2-2007] represents a harbour scene. The two canvas are not joined at the bottom and the back canvas is slightly shorter than the front. Green bias binding protects both left and right edges and joins the canvases together. The batten is round and held in a sleeve created from the back canvas. Two eye screws have been attached through the sleeve into the batten approx 22mm from both edges.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | painted canvas |
| Brief description | Backcloth representing a Bavarian-style castle, used by the Chelsea Puppet Theatre group for their burlesque mediaeval-style melodrama The Secret Well, c.1960. Painted canvas, probably c.1870 and originally made for a marionette theatre production by the Tiller family company. |
| Physical description | Painted backcloth on a wooden batten representing a scene of a Bavarian-style castle with blue spirires and steps leading up to the castle in the foreground. The castle is flanked with dark green cypress trees. The cloth consists of two canvases attached back to back, with images on both sides.The other side [S.204:2-2007] represents a harbour scene. The two canvas are not joined at the bottom and the back canvas is slightly shorter than the front. Green bias binding protects both left and right edges and joins the canvases together. The batten is round and held in a sleeve created from the back canvas. Two eye screws have been attached through the sleeve into the batten approx 22mm from both edges. |
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| Credit line | Given by the British Puppet and Model Theatre Guild |
| Production | Although this cloth was used by The Chelsea Puppet Theatre group for their burlesque mediaeval melodrama The Secret Well, it is probably of 19th century origin and may have come from a marionette company such as that operated by the Tiller family. |
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| Other number | V.42 - British Puppet and Model Theatre Guild number |
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| Accession number | S.204:1-2007 |
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| Record created | September 8, 2008 |
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