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Drawings: G1178
Title
Design of costume for Cressida from 'Troilus and Cressida'
Dimensions
height: 17.8cm
width: 11.5cm
width: 11.5cm
Other materials
Pen, Ink, gouache and watercolour.
Inscription/signature
'Troilus & Cressida/ Cressida/ Pale golden hair with/ high coronet plait/ Tunic lemon yellow/ stencilled in rose/ flowers with gold leaves &/ centres. Gold girdle./ underskirt Rose pink/ very pale pink transparent/ scarf with gold stars'
Provenance
Donated to the Club by Donald Sinden in 2012. See works of art minutes for 2012.
Tissue paper wrapper around the designs has written on it : " With Love, Jack and Winif". According to Sinden's memoirs 'A Touch of the Memoirs' Jack and Winifred Keates were friends he made in his early years of acting at MESA. Jack Keates was the manager of Brighton Theatre Royal for twenty-eight years and Winifred was his wife and an actress and director. They became friends with Donald Sinden and were Godparents to his first born son. They amassed an archive of material relating to the Theatre Royal in Brighton.
One of a group of designs for costumes for various plays, donated by Donald Sinden in 2012. This depicts a woman in pink and yellow floral dress with a scarf draped around her shoulders
