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The Merchant of Venice costume designs

Title: The Merchant of Venice costume designs, 1922.
Author: Macquoid, Percy, -1925.

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Status	Container	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Box 1	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Vim 2010-032 Box 1	Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Box 2	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Vim 2010-032 Box 2	Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Box 3	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Vim 2010-032 Box 3	Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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Description

3 boxes (ca. 120 drawings) : ink, watercolor and pencil on board or paper; 28 x 38 cm. or smaller.

Summary

Original costume designs and costume plots, lists of characters, props, costumes and cost estimates for the production of William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, which opened in Dec. 1922 at the Lyceum Theatre in New York.

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Genre/Form

Costume design drawings.

Note

Several designs include notes by designer.
Some designs are dated 1922.
Designs are arranged alphabetically by character.

Contents

Box 1. Costume designs: Antonio - Dwarfs -- Box 2. Costume designs: The Doge's Guards - Nerissa -- Box 3. Costume designs: Old Gobbo - Wine Porter; Costume lists, notes & research; Costume plots.

Call Number

*T-Vim 2010-032

OCLC

669062818

Author

Macquoid, Percy, -1925. Costume designer

Title

The Merchant of Venice costume designs, 1922.

Biography

British theatrical designer, illustrator and author of 4 books and numerous articles on English furniture, Percy Macquoid was the son of illustrator and watercolourist Thomas Robert Macquoid (1820-1912), and novelist and travel writer Katharine Sarah Macquoid [pseud. Gilbert Percy] (1824-1917).

Local Note

More designs by Percy Macquoid for the Merchant of Venice can be found in Costume designs for The merchant of Venice, 1922 (*T-Vim 1990-022).

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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Merchant of Venice.

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Research Call Number

*T-Vim 2010-032

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