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Description: | The collection is extensive and a single resource although covering museums, archive and library collections and include costumes, designs, paintings, prints, photographs, posters, programmes, press cuttings, prompt books, and video recordings. The library and archive holdings are recorded as separate collections.
There are several million photographs, over 1 million programmes, playbills and cuttings dating from c.1700 Ã- present; 12,000 rare prints, 100 paintings by Lely, Sickert and other artisits; 8,000 posters, 12,000 designs including 17th century court ballet costume designs and set designs and models by Jojn Piper, Leslie Hurry and Edward Gordon Craig; over 2,000 costumes including examples of 18th century court theatre and Laurence OlivierÃ's at the National, and prompt books ranging from HandelÃ's Radamisto in 1720 to John OsbourneÃ's Look back in anger in 1956. | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | Russel Street,
Covent Garden London London United Kingdom,
WC2E 7PR | FAX: | 02072754490 | Telephone: | 02079434700 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:5944 | Go to resource |
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