Lawrence and Lee Theatre Research Institute

Costume design for Muir of Huntershill: "Mrs. Douglas"

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  • Daphne Dare Papers, Lawrence and Lee Theatre Research Institute, The Ohio State University

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  • Costume design for Muir of Huntershill: "Mrs. Douglas"
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Date Created
  • 1962
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Summary
  • Drawing depicts a full-length standing woman in frontal pose holding a bowl in one hand and a spoon in the other. She wears a long yellow dress that has ruffled white trim on the elbow-length sleeves. White fabric is wrapped around the shoulders and across the front created a scoop neckline, but within that is an open inset bodice with a collar. She has an apron tied around her waist. She wears a straw hat over her brown shoulder-length hair. The black marker drawing is tinted with watercolor washes.
Description
  • Performer and Role: Lillias Walker as Mrs. Douglas
  • In marker, upper left: "MRS DOUGLAS; Miss Lilias Walker"
  • Pitlochry Festival Theatre
  • In pencil, right top to bottom: "straw hat comes off; sleeves able to roll down; apron comes off"
Provenance
  • From the estate of Daphne Dare, Valerie Minifie, executor, London (2001)

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  • SPEC.TRI.DD.DES.1003
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  • SPEC.TRI.DD
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Extent
  • 40 x 25 cm
Medium
  • watercolor (paint)
  • paper (fiber product)
  • markers (drawing instruments)
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  • This item, made available for research and educational purposes, may be protected by copyright; the user is responsible for making a final determination of copyright status.

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