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Costume design for The Beggar's Opera: "Ben Budge", "Harry Paddington"

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Date Created
  • 1972
Summary
  • Drawing depicts two men. The man on the left holds a gun in one hand and a tankard in the other. He wears a long olive-colored coat with wide cuffs, tan breeches, knee-high brown boots and a dark tricorne hat. The man on the right has a club with protruding nails in one hand and holds his collared black cape back with the other. He wears a snug cap and has a patch over one eye. The sleeves of his brown shirt are rolled up above the elbows. He has a dark brown belt on his lighter brown breeches, tan stockings, and dark shoes. The pencil drawing has been reinforced with black ink and tinted with watercolor washes.
Description
  • In pencil, upper left: "Ben Budge; Mr Richard Comish". In pencil, upper right: "Harry Paddington; Mr John Rogan". In pencil, bottom left: "Daphne Dare". In pencil, bottom center: "Beggars Opera; Chichester 72". In pencil, mid right: "+ Hat & boots".
  • Performer and Role: Richard Comish as Ben Budge, John Rogan as Harry Paddington
  • Chichester Festival Theatre
Provenance
  • From the estate of Daphne Dare, Valerie Minifie, executor, London (2001)
Item Identifier
  • SPEC.TRI.DD.DES.0350
Collection Identifier
  • SPEC.TRI.DD
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  • 42 x 30 cm
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  • watercolor (paint)
  • ink
  • pencil (marking material)
  • paper (fiber product)
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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.
Credit line: Daphne Dare Papers, The Ohio State University, Lawrence and Lee Theatre Research Institute

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