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Description: | This substantial collection includes scenery and costume designs, as well as paintings and prints, set and theatre models. There is a significant amount of material from Eurpoe, America, China, Japan, Israel, Russia, South America, Thailand and elsewhere, though the most comprehensive coverage is of British theatre, especially London, Bristol and south west England.
A notable painting is the full-length portrait of Edmund Keen as Richard III, painted by S Drummond and exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1814. Other artworks include: Mrs Abington, a cartoon inscribed and mounted by John Kemble, dated 1786; David Garrick, painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds and engraved by Thomas Watson, 1779; Sarah Siddons, painted by Leigh Ellis; and Sir John Vanbrugh by an unknown engraver from a painting by Kneller.
There are models of theatres and sets including a group of three by Dr Richard Southern of Wren's Drury Lane; Georgiabn Theatre, Richmond, Yorkshire; and the Studio Theatre, Wills Building, University of Bristol.
Costume and set designs include: two designs by Michael Ayrton for Purcell's opera 'The Faerie Queene' at Covent Garden, 1946; original woodcuts of 'Hamlet' by Edward Gordon Craig; 24 costume designs, one dated 1880 by A Maltby; and 54 costume designs by Wilhelm for pantomimes at the Princes Theatre, Bristol, 1882-86. | Subjects: | Fine Art | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | Department of Drama
Cantocks Close
Bristol,
BS8 1UP | FAX: | 0117 928 7832 | Telephone: | 0117 928 7836 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:2557 | Go to resource |
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