Blow Your Own Trumpet

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Artist/Maker	Feliks Topolski (artist)
Place of origin	Great Britain (made)

Designs for the costumes of Rosa, Maestro Servandoni, Israel Altmeyer and Lorenzo Taruffi in a set of four pen and ink drawings, coloured in ink wash and watercolour, for Peter Ustinov's 'Blow Your Own Trumpet', produced by the Old Vic Theatre at the Playhouse Theatre, London. Pattern of red material attached to E.56.

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Categories	Drawings Theatre
Object type	Drawing
Title	Blow Your Own Trumpet
Materials and techniques	Pen and ink drawings, coloured in ink wash and watercolour Paper Pen and Ink Drawing Wash Watercolour
Brief description	Designs for the costumes of Rosa, Maestro Servandoni, Israel Altmeyer and Lorenzo Taruffi in Peter Ustinov's 'Blow Your Own Trumpet', at the Playhouse Theatre, London. Great Britain, 1943.
Physical description	Designs for the costumes of Rosa, Maestro Servandoni, Israel Altmeyer and Lorenzo Taruffi in a set of four pen and ink drawings, coloured in ink wash and watercolour, for Peter Ustinov's 'Blow Your Own Trumpet', produced by the Old Vic Theatre at the Playhouse Theatre, London. Pattern of red material attached to E.56.
Dimensions	Average size of sheets height: 15.875in Width: 12.875in Dimensions taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Engraving Illustration and Design & Department of Paintings, Accessions 1946. London: Published under the Authority of the Ministry of Education, 1949.
Marks and inscriptions	Inscribed with notes in pencil
Credit line	Given by the Artist
Subjects depicted	Costumes Theatre
Bibliographic reference	Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Engraving Illustration and Design & Department of Paintings, Accessions 1946. London: Published under the Authority of the Ministry of Education, 1949.
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.56-1946

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Record created	June 30, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O607910/blow-your-own-trumpet-drawing-feliks-topolski/

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