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Image Title | Snug as Lion |
Performance Title | Midsummer Night's Dream |
Opening Performance Date | 1954 |
Theater | Royal Shakespeare Theatre (Stratford-upon-Avon, England) |
Author | Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 |
Associated People (Director) | Devine, George, 1910-1966 |
Associated People (Actor) | Blake, Mervyn, 1907-2003 |
Object | Costume rendering |
Type | Image |
Material/Techniques | Gouache Watercolor |
Support | Paper |
Dimensions | 13 1/4 x 18 1/2 |
Description | Costume rendering for Snug as Lion in Midsummer Night's Dream: Snug on hands and knees with brown lion's head mask and lion's body costume over arms and back, to knees. Lion costume fastened with brown ties. Some of Snug's clothing is visible: red shirt with gray stars black tights with gray stripes black sandals. |
Inscription | A Midsummer Nights Dream Snug, Play costume, Lion Mervyn Black, in manuscript hand, upper right corner. |
Style or Period | Archaic Greek with Eastern influence c. 500 B.C. Assyria, Persia, Phrygia |
Production notes | http://images.library.uiuc.edu/projects/motley/prodnote/prodmid.htm |
Subject I (AAT) | costume design costumes (character dress) gouaches (paintings) brown (color) shirts (main garments) red (color) gray (color) stars (motifs) tights (opaque stockings) black (color) sandals ties (fasteners) |
Subject II (TGMI) | Theatrical productions Costume Design drawings Lions |
Subject III (LCSH) | Theater--History |
Rights | Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; For questions regarding these materials, please contact the Rare Book and Manuscript Library: https://illinois.edu/fb/sec/7016277 |
Physical Location | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Rare Book and Manuscript Library |
Inventory Number | 540323-021 |
JPEG URL | http://imagesearch-test1.library.illinois.edu/motley/jpg/540323_021.jpg |
Collection Title | Motley Collection of Theatre and Costume Design (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library) |
RDF | http://imagesearch-test1.library.illinois.edu/jsonld/6886.json |