Research Catalog
Edward Hamilton Bell designs
- Title
- Edward Hamilton Bell designs, 1889-1891.
- Author
- Bell, Hamilton, 1857-1929.
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| Status | Container | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Box 1 | Still image | Supervised use | *T-Vim 2012-012 Box 1 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Box 2 | Still image | Supervised use | *T-Vim 2012-012 Box 2 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Details
- Description
- 2 boxes (ca. 585 drawings) : some col.; 25 x 36 cm. or smaller.
- Summary
- 129 color costume designs, approximately 456 ink or pencil sketches, research notes and tracings, created by painter and decorative designer Edward Hamilton Bell for theatrical productions in New York City in the last two decades of the 19th century.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Costume design drawings.
- Sketches.
- Note
- Several drawings include notes on the margins or verso.
- Some drawings are sighed "EHB."
- Contents
- Box 1. Becket ; Ganelon, 1889 ; Henry V ; Mary Stuart ; Twelfth night, 1891 ; Vert-Vert ; unidentified costume designs -- Box 2. Research notes and sketches.
- Call Number
- *T-VIM 2012-012
- OCLC
- 788432045
- Author
- Bell, Hamilton, 1857-1929. Costume designer
- Title
- Edward Hamilton Bell designs, 1889-1891.
- Biography
- Edward Hamilton Bell (1857-1929) was born in London, U.K., and studied studio art at the Slade School of Art in London. In 1885, he moved to the United States, where he began working as landscape and building architect, and also designed costumes for several productions, including Marie Wainwright's Twelfth night, 1891; Ganelon, 1889; and Mary Stuart. Bell served as art director for the New Theater in New York, and in Pennsylvania as director of the Pennsylvania Museum of Art (later Philadelphia Museum of Art) and curator of the John G. Johnson Collection. He died in Philadelphia.
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- Research Call Number
- *T-VIM 2012-012